Play, creativity and digital cultures / edited by Rebekah Willett, Muriel Robinson and Jackie Marsh. - New York : Routledge, 2009. - x, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Routledge research in education ; 17 . - Routledge research in education ; 17 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Encountering play and creativity in everyday life / Rebekah Willett and Muriel Robinson -- Games within games : convergence and critical literacy / Catherine Beavis -- Achieving a global reach on children's cultural markets : managing the stakes of inter-textuality in digital cultures / Valérie-Inés de la Ville and Laurent Durup -- Consumption, production and online identities : amateur spoofs on YouTube / Rebekah Willett -- The texts of me and the texts of us : improvisation and polished performance in social networking sites / Clare Dowdall -- Exciting yet safe : the appeal of thick play and big worlds / Margaret Mackey -- Online connections, collaborations, chronicles and crossings / Julia Davies -- Mimesis and the spatial economy of children's play across digital divides : what consequences for creativity and agency? / Beth Cross -- Creativity : exploring the rhetorics and the realities / Shakuntala Banaji -- What education has to teach us about games and game play / Caroline Pelletier -- Digital cultures, play, creativity : trapped underground.jpg / Victoria Carrington -- Productive pedagogies : play, creativity and digital cultures in the classroom / Jackie Marsh -- Conclusion / Muriel Robinson and Rebekah Willett.

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Digital communication.


Play.
Creative ability--Social aspects.
Creative thinking.
Creative ability.

370.157 / PLA 2009