Children of a new world [[electronic resource] ] : society, culture, and globalization / / Paula S. Fass

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782763203321
• Autore: Fass Paula S
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 0-8147-2852-9; 0-8147-2784-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (11 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.230973/0904
• Soggetti: Children - United States - History - 20th century; Children - United States - Social conditions - 20th century; Education - United States - History - 20th century; Immigrant children - Education - United States - History - 20th century; Socialization - United States - History - 20th century; Children in popular culture - United States - History - 20th century; Children - Social conditions - 20th century; Globalization - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Children in society, culture, and the world -- Immigration and education in the United States -- The IQ : a cultural and historical framework -- Creating new identities : youth and ethnicity in New York City high schools in the 1930s and 1940s -- Making and remaking an event : the Leopold and Loeb case in American culture -- A sign of family disorder? : changing representations of parental kidnapping -- Bringing it home : children, technology, and family in the post-World War II world -- Children and globalization -- Children in global migrations -- Children of a new world.
• Sommario/riassunto: Paula S. Fass, a pathbreaker in children’s history and the history of education, turns her attention in Children of a New World to the impact of globalization on children’s lives, both in the United States and on the world stage. Globalization, privatization, the rise of the “work-centered” family, and the triumph of the unregulated marketplace, she ; argues, are revolutionizing the lives of children today.Fass begins by considering the role of the school as a fundamental component of social formation, particularly in a nation of immigrants like the United States. She goes on to examine children as both creators of culture and objects of cultural concern in America, evident in the strange contemporary fear of and fascination with child abduction, child murder, and parental kidnapping. Finally, Fass moves beyond the limits of American society and brings historical issues into the present and toward the future, exploring how American historical experience can serve as a guide to contemporary globalization as well as how globalization is altering the experience of American children and redefining childhood.Clear and scholarly, serious but witty, Children of a New World provides a foundation for future historical investigations while adding to our current understanding of the nature of modern childhood, the role of education for national identity, the crisis of family life, and the influence of American concepts of childhood on the world’s definitions of children's rights. As a new generation comes of age in a global world, it is a vital contribution to the study of childhood and globalization.

Inter/vention : free play in the age of electracy / / Jan Rune Holmevik ; foreword by Gregory Ulmer ; afterword by Ian Bogost

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790196003321
• Autore: Holmevik Jan Rune
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2012
• ISBN: 0-262-30090-7; 1-280-49918-4; 9786613594419; 0-262-30165-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (229 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23/101
• Soggetti: Mass media - Philosophy; Digital media - Philosophy; Mass media - Technological innovations; Mass media and technology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Widescope -- Hacker noir -- Choral code -- Venture -- Intervention -- Ludic ethics -- Burning chrome.
• Sommario/riassunto: Chiefly concerned with MMRPGs (Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games) and the communities that they give rise to.; In today's complex digital world, we must understand new media expressions and digital experiences not simply as more technologically advanced forms of "writing" that can be understood and analyzed as "texts" but as artifacts in their own right that require a unique skill set. Just as agents seeking to express themselves in alphabetic writing need to be literate, "egents" who seek to express themselves in digital media need to be--to use a term coined by cybertheorist Gregory Ulmer--electrate. In Inter/vention, Jan Holmevik helps to invent electracy. He does so by tracing its path across the digital and rhetorical landscape--informatics, hacker heuretics, ethics, pedagogy, virtual space, and monumentality--and by introducing play as a new genre of electracy. Play, he argues, is the electrate ludic transversal. Holmevik contributes to the repertoire of electrate practices in order to understand and ; demonstrate how play invents electracy. Holmevik's argument straddles two divergences: in rhetoric, between how we study rhetoric as play and how we play rhetorically and in game studies, between ludology and narratology. Game studies has forged ludology practice by distinguishing it from literate practice (and often allying itself with the scientific tradition). Holmevik is able to link ludology and rhetoric through electracy. Play can and does facilitate invention: Play invented the field of ludology, Holmevik proposes a new heuretic in which play acts as a conductor for the invention of electracy. Play is a meta behavior that touches on every aspect of Ulmer's concept of electracy.