The ambiguity of play

Introducing a new hobby for other people may inspire them to join with you. Reading, as one of mutual hobby, is considered as the very easy hobby to do. But, many people are not interested in this hobby. Why? Boring is the reason of why. However, this feel actually can deal with the book and time of you reading. Yeah, one that we will refer to break the boredom in reading is choosing media society world social theory and digital media practice as the reading material.

Media, society, world: Social theory and digital media practice

Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games

Changing views of children and childhood have resulted in an increased focus on the nature of children’s participation in research. Rather than conducting research on children, many researchers now seek to engage with children in research. Such a change recognises children’s agency as well as their rights to have a say in matters that affect them. Research that reflects a participatory rights perspective and respects children’s agency must be based on children making informed decisions about their participation. However, prevailing views of children’s competence to make these decisions often preclude their involvement. While recognising the importance of informed consent from parents/guardians, we argue the importance of assent as a means of recognising the wishes of young children in relation to research participation. In this context, assent is defined as a relational process whereby children’s actions and adult responses taken together, reflect children’s participation decisions.

Researching with young children: Seeking Assent

This article explores 4- to 7-year-old children’s tablet computer (tablet) use, drawing on empirical data from day-care institutions, primary schools and private home settings in Denmark. Data were...

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Absorbency and utensilency: A spectrum for analysing children’s digital play practices:

Children, COVID-19 and the media: A Study on the Challenges Children are Facing in the 2020 Coronavirus Crisis

ABSTRACT This article is based on qualitative and quantitative data collected from teachers and pupils in Danish schools in June 2020, as schools reopened following closures in the spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It investigates the transformations in school life that took place in this period in response to strict official guidelines to prevent the spread of infection, transformations both in school learning environments and in teaching activities. Using factor and cluster analyses and logistic regression, it explores the relation between teaching environment and pupils’ emotional, social, and academic wellbeing, identifying correlations between key factors in the environment and the three dimensions of wellbeing. The study contributes both to understanding and dealing with the crisis in which education systems in the Nordic countries have found themselves in and adds relevant knowledge on themes of importance for education in the future.

Playful Learning During the Reopening of Danish Schools After Covid 19 Closures

Children’s play practices with Internet-connected toys occur in everyday situations across online and offline domains. The video-ethnographic ‘Points-of-View’ (POV) method presented here provides up-close access to sociomaterial practices between children and digital toys. We draw on a dual camera setup, providing audio-visual data from both ends of the interactions and present examples of empirical data created using this method, followed by analysis and discussion of how these examples provide some much-needed nuances on the subject of digital play. The POV method represents a rigid type of video ethnography in terms of camerawork, aiming at high levels of audio-visual comparability across informants and settings. Lastly, we discuss problems and suggest improvements to the method.

Video Methods: Researching Sociomaterial Points-of-View in Children’s Play Practices with IoToys

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Thomas Enemark Lundtofte

Papers

Children, COVID-19 and the media: A Study on the Challenges Children are Facing in the 2020 Coronavirus Crisis

Absorbency and utensilency: A spectrum for analysing children’s digital play practices:

Playful Learning During the Reopening of Danish Schools After Covid 19 Closures

Video Methods: Researching Sociomaterial Points-of-View in Children’s Play Practices with IoToys

Young Children's Tablet Computer Play.