Exploring Minecraft

Exploring Minecraft

by Larissa HjorthIngrid Richardson Hugh Davies and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/02/2021

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This book directs critical attention to one of the most ubiquitous and yet under-analyzed games, Minecraft. Drawing on three years of ethnographic fieldwork into mobile games in Australian homes, the authors seek to take Minecraft seriously as a cultural practice. The book examines how Minecraft players engage in a form of gameplay that is uniquely intergenerational, creative, and playful, and which moves ambivalently throughout everyday life. At the intersection of digital media, quotidian literacy, and ethnography, the book situates interdisciplinary debates around mundane play through the lens of Minecraft. Ultimately, Exploring Minecraft seeks to coalesce the discussion between formal and informal learning, fostering new forms of digital media creativity and ethnographic innovation around the analysis of games in everyday life.

ISBN:
9783030599089
9783030599089
Category:
Age groups: children
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-02-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Larissa Hjorth

Larissa Hjorth is Distinguished Professor and Director of Design and Creative Practice at RMIT University in Melbourne. She is coauthor of Screen Ecologies (MIT Press).

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