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The Library as Playground
eBook - How Games and Play are Reshaping Public Culture
ISBN/EAN: 9781538164327
Umbreit-Nr.: 7570903
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 168 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 13.04.2022
Auflage: 1/2022
E-Book
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><span>Digital and analog games have long served modern public libraries as educational tools</span><span>and as drawcards for new patrons from dedicated gaming zones</span><span> and childrens spaces to</span><span>Minecraft</span><span> gaming days, makerspaces, and virtual reality collections. Much has been written about the role of games and play in libraries programming and collections.</span><span>But their wider role in transforming libraries as public institutions remains unexplored.</span></p><p><span>In this book, the authors draw on ethnographic research to provide a rich portrait of the intersection between games, play, and public libraries. They look at how games and play are increasingly spilling out of designated zones within libraries and beyond their walls, as part of a broader reconfiguration and reimagining of libraries in the digital era.</span></p><p><span>The librarys association with play has historically been understood through its classification as a third place: somewhere to relax,</span><span>socialise</span><span> and experiment outside of the utilitarian demands of work and home. But far from just offering patrons an opportunity for detached leisure, this book illustrates how libraries are connecting games and play to policies agendas around their municipalitys economic and cultural development. Attending to the institutionalisation of play, the book sheds new light both on the contradictions at the heart of play as a theoretical concept, and what libraries are in contemporary public life.</span></p>
- Kurztext
- <p><span>This book examines the expanding impact of games and play on public libraries as manifested in their spaces, programs, design, and support for gamemaking communities. It reveals how the rise of play in public libraries is connected to a broader digital culture.</span></p> <p></p> <p></p>
- Autorenportrait
- <p><span>Dale Leorke</span><span> is an independent researcher</span><span>. His research focuses on the intersection of games, play and public space. His research interests include mobile and location-based games, participatory planning and civic engagement, and the transformation of public libraries in the digital era.</span><span>His books include</span><span>Location-based Gaming: Play in Public Space</span><span> (2018),</span><span>Public Libraries in the Smart City</span><span> (2018),</span><span>Openness in Practice: Understanding Attitudes to Open Government Data</span><span> (2021),</span><span></span><span>and the edited collection</span><span>Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City</span><span> (2020).</span></p><p></p><p><span>Danielle Wyatt</span><span>is a cultural researcher at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. She writes and researches about the public life of culture, particularly the intersection between cultural spaces, networked technologies, arts practice and cultural policy. Recent work has been published in the book,</span><span>Public Libraries in the Smart City</span><span> (co-authored with Dale Leorke), in the anthology,</span><span>Communicative Cities and Urban Space</span><span> edited by Scott McQuire and Sun Wei, and in the</span><span>International Journal of Cultural Policy</span><span>. Other research has been published in the journals</span><span>New Media and Society</span><span>,</span><span> City, Culture and Society, and Field: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism</span><span>.</span><span></span></p>