TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kafai,Yasmin B.
AU  - Fields,Deborah A.
TI  - Connected play: tweens in a virtual world 
T2  - The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on digital media and learning
SN  - 9780262019934 (hbk.) :
AV  - LB1029.S53 K34 2013
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Whyville
KW  - Education
KW  - Simulation methods
KW  - Shared virtual environments
KW  - Educational games
KW  - Preteens
KW  - Recreation
N1  - Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Playgrounds for millions -- Digital footprints -- Identity play -- Social play -- Boundary play -- Science play -- Designing play -- Future play
N2  - Millions of children visit virtual worlds every day. In such virtual play spaces as Habbo Hotel, Toontown, and Whyville, kids chat with friends from school, meet new people, construct avatars, and earn and spend virtual currency. In 'Connected Play', Yasmin Kafai and Deborah Fields investigate what happens when kids play in virtual worlds, how this matters for their offline lives, and what this means for the design of educational opportunities in digital worlds. Play is fundamentally important for kids' development, but, Kafai and Fields argue, to understand play in virtual worlds, we need to connect concerns of development and culture with those of digital media and learning. Kafai and Fields do this through a detailed study of kids' play in Whyville, a massive, informal virtual world with educational content for tween players
ER  -