Gamers in Ganglands : the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in Ocean View, Cape Town

Master Thesis

2012

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Venter, Marija Anja
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Walton, Marion
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University of Cape Town

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Centre for Film and Media Studies
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Faculty of Humanities
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This dissertation explores the contextual meanings of digital gaming for a group of children from the resource-constrained township of Ocean View, situated 45km outside of Cape Town. I document the domestication (Silverstone & Haddon, 1996) of mobile phones and PlayStations as technologies for gaming in this context, showing how the children appropriated the games technologies much as other household media are domesticated, in a process of double articulation.
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Media Theory and Practice

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Venter, M. 2012. Gamers in Ganglands : the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in Ocean View, Cape Town. University of Cape Town.

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