What does good look like for play in a digital world?

Livingstone, Sonia ORCID: 0000-0002-3248-9862 (2020) What does good look like for play in a digital world? Digital Futures Commission (13 Oct 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

When we tell people that the Digital Futures Commission will begin its work by rethinking children’s play, their eyes light up. There’s something about play that seems to capture the essence of childhood, and that speaks to the child in us all. But what is it? Is it that it’s fun, or child-led, or experimental or creative? Yet play can be serious, adult-guided, rule-governed, repetitive. Whatever it is, and play turns out to be difficult to define, the qualities of play make it so valuable that play is endlessly harnessed to other purposes – education most often, but also behaviour change, therapy and more – by all kinds of actors and organisations.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Media and Communications
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Date Deposited:	06 Jul 2023 09:45
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2023 11:41
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/119604

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