From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous
Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 311 g
ISBN: 978-3-031-42373-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
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.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1: Dreaming the Myth Onwards.- Chapter 2: A Survey of Child-Characters in Contemporary Videogames.- Chapter 3: The Child as a Social Construct.- Chapter 4: Child Killers and Killer Children.- Chapter 5: Child Heroes.- Chapter 6: Plushies, Dollies, and Action Figurines.- Chapter 7: The Kid in the Fridge.
