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Gamers in Ganglands : the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in Ocean View, Cape Town
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| author | Venter, Marija Anja |
| author2 | Walton, Marion |
| author_browse | Venter, Marija Anja Walton, Marion |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12054 Gamers in Ganglands : the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in Ocean View, Cape Town Venter, Marija Anja Walton, Marion Media Theory and Practice Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. 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. 2015-01-11T04:58:14Z 2015-01-11T04:58:14Z 2012 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12054 eng application/pdf Centre for Film and Media Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Media Theory and Practice Venter, Marija Anja Gamers in Ganglands : the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in Ocean View, Cape Town |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Gamers in Ganglands : the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in Ocean View, Cape Town |
| title_full | Gamers in Ganglands : the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in Ocean View, Cape Town |
| title_fullStr | Gamers in Ganglands : the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in Ocean View, Cape Town |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gamers in Ganglands : the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in Ocean View, Cape Town |
| title_short | Gamers in Ganglands : the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in Ocean View, Cape Town |
| title_sort | gamers in ganglands the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in ocean view cape town |
| topic | Media Theory and Practice |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12054 |
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