TY - BOOK ID - 78145016 TI - Children's games in the new media age AU - Burn, Andrew AU - Richards, Christopher Owen PY - 2016 SN - 1315571595 1472401468 1409450244 9781315571591 9781317167556 1317167554 9781317167563 1317167562 9781317167549 1317167546 9781409450245 9781409450252 1409450252 PB - London DB - UniCat KW - Games KW - Games and technology KW - Social Sciences KW - Recreation & Sports KW - Technology and games KW - Technology KW - Children KW - Children's games KW - Games, Primitive KW - Games for children KW - Pastimes KW - Primitive games KW - Recreations KW - Entertaining KW - Physical education and training KW - Amusements KW - Play KW - Sports KW - Recreation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78145016 AB - The result of a unique research project exploring the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions about children's play: that it is depleted or even dying out and that it is threatened by contemporary media such as television and computer games. A key element in the research was the digitization and analysis of Iona and Peter Opie's sound recordings of children's playground and street games from the 1970s and 1980s. This framed and enabled the research team's studies both of the Opies' documents of mid-twentieth-century play culture and, through a two-year ethnographic study of play and games in two primary school playgrounds, contemporary children's play cultures. In addition the research included the use of a prototype computer game to capture playground games and the making of a documentary film. Drawing on this extraordinary data set, the volume poses three questions: What do these hitherto unseen sources reveal about the games, songs and rhymes the Opies and others collected in the mid-twentieth century? What has happened to these vernacular forms? How are the forms of vernacular play that are transmitted in playgrounds, homes and streets transfigured in the new media age? In addressing these questions, the contributors reflect on the changing face of childhood in the twenty-first century - in relation to questions of gender and power and with attention to the children's own participation in producing the ethnographic record of their lives. ER -