Abstract
In this chapter we outline a research toolkit for the study of Internet-connected toys and their processual and situated affordances. We account for the complex and varied ways in which connected toys, children, adults and media infrastructures interrelate and interact to form systems of meaning and ensembles of technologies and agency, which constitute the digital materialities and social practices of connected play. This toolkit of research methods uses an ethnographic methodology but is informed by two epistemological approaches – phenomenological and non-representational. Thus, this toolkit takes into account the sociocultural context, materiality and symbolic dimensions of connected toy use.
Lingua originale | Inglese |
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Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | The Internet of Toys. Practices, Affordances and the Political Economy of Children’s Smart Play |
Editor | G. Mascheroni, D. Holloway |
Pagine | 265-282 |
Numero di pagine | 18 |
DOI | |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2019 |
Keywords
- Internet of Things
- Internet of Toys
- digital materialities
- materialist phenomenology
- walkthrough method