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The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous

The Child in Videogames: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Emma ReayPublish date:2023-10-17Pages:222
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9783031423703ISBN-10:3031423704UPC:9783031423703Book Category:Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Media Studies, Children's & Young Adult LiteratureSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SC4AD90MKP

Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children's Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions of whether videogames are 'good' or 'bad' for child-players and towards questions of how videogames produce childhood as a set of social roles and rules in contemporary Western contexts. It does so by cataloguing and critiquing representations of childhood across a corpus of over 500 contemporary videogames. While child-players are frequently the topic of academic debate - particularly within the fields of psychology, behavioural science, and education research - child-characters in videogames are all but invisible. This book's aim is to make these child-characters not only visible, but legible, and to demonstrate that coded kids in virtual worlds can shed light on how and why the boundaries between adults and children are shifting.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9783031423703ISBN-10:3031423704UPC:9783031423703Book Category:Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Media Studies, Children's & Young Adult LiteratureSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.9612Product ID:SC4AD90MKP

Dr. Emma Reay is a Senior Lecturer in Emerging Media at the University of Southampton.


Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

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2024 Edition

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Emma Reay

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Emma Reay

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