Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town.

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dc.contributor.advisorWalton, Marionen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorPrinsloo, Mastinen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorPallitt, Nicolaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-30T19:51:02Z
dc.date.available2014-12-30T19:51:02Z
dc.date.issued2013en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates children's gaming relationships with peers in out-of-school settings, and explores their interpretation of digital games as gendered media texts. As an interdisciplinary study, it combines insights from Childhood Studies, Cultural Studies, Game Studies, domestication and performance theory. The concept ludic gendering is developed in order to explain how gender "works" in games, as designed semiotic and ludic artefacts. Ludic gendering also helps to explain the appropriation of games through gameplay, and the interpretation of gendered rules and representations. The study expands on audience reception research to account for children's "readings" of digital games. Social Network Analysis (SNA) is used to study gaming relationships. Combining SNA with broadly ethnographic methods provided a systematic way of investigating children's peer relationships and gendered play.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationPallitt, N. (2013). <i>Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Film and Media Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10635en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationPallitt, Nicola. <i>"Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Film and Media Studies, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10635en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationPallitt, N. 2013. Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Pallitt, Nicola AB - This thesis investigates children's gaming relationships with peers in out-of-school settings, and explores their interpretation of digital games as gendered media texts. As an interdisciplinary study, it combines insights from Childhood Studies, Cultural Studies, Game Studies, domestication and performance theory. The concept ludic gendering is developed in order to explain how gender "works" in games, as designed semiotic and ludic artefacts. Ludic gendering also helps to explain the appropriation of games through gameplay, and the interpretation of gendered rules and representations. The study expands on audience reception research to account for children's "readings" of digital games. Social Network Analysis (SNA) is used to study gaming relationships. Combining SNA with broadly ethnographic methods provided a systematic way of investigating children's peer relationships and gendered play. DA - 2013 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2013 T1 - Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town TI - Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10635 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/10635
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationPallitt N. Gender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Film and Media Studies, 2013 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10635en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Film and Media Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherFilm and Media Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleGender identities at play : children's digital gaming in two settings in Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
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