The struggle and enrichment of play: Domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parents
Gaming is a frequent source of conflict for families. Research on parents and gaming has identified a lack of gaming-related expertise, a general devaluation or fear of play, and authoritative and restrictive parenting styles as key sources of conflict. What happens when these deficits are addressed...
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| description | Gaming is a frequent source of conflict for families. Research on parents and gaming has identified a lack of gaming-related expertise, a general devaluation or fear of play, and authoritative and restrictive parenting styles as key sources of conflict. What happens when these deficits are addressed? What does mediation look like when parents are expert gamers, enjoy play, and encourage play for their children? Based on qualitative interviews with 29 parents who identify as gamers, we explore how gamer parents domesticate games. To explore the work of stabilising gaming as a wholesome and valued pastime, we combine domestication theory with overflows to address the struggles involved. The analysis investigates how gamer parents mediate play, with an emphasis on how games are interpreted, the family's player practices, and the role of gaming-related expertise in accordance with the three dimensions (symbolic, practice, cognitive) of domestication theory. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-1d5207f978bf43dea8ab0b02c31197902025-02-02T15:48:50ZengSciendoNordicom Review2001-51192021-09-0142s410712310.2478/nor-2021-0044The struggle and enrichment of play: Domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parentsAsk Kristine0Sørenssen Ingvild Kvale1Moltubakk Stine Thordarson2Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, NTNU, NorwayDepartment of Education and Lifelong Learning, NTNU, NorwayNTNU University Library, NorwayGaming is a frequent source of conflict for families. Research on parents and gaming has identified a lack of gaming-related expertise, a general devaluation or fear of play, and authoritative and restrictive parenting styles as key sources of conflict. What happens when these deficits are addressed? What does mediation look like when parents are expert gamers, enjoy play, and encourage play for their children? Based on qualitative interviews with 29 parents who identify as gamers, we explore how gamer parents domesticate games. To explore the work of stabilising gaming as a wholesome and valued pastime, we combine domestication theory with overflows to address the struggles involved. The analysis investigates how gamer parents mediate play, with an emphasis on how games are interpreted, the family's player practices, and the role of gaming-related expertise in accordance with the three dimensions (symbolic, practice, cognitive) of domestication theory.https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0044digital gamesparental mediationoverflowsdomesticationeveryday life |
| spellingShingle | Ask Kristine Sørenssen Ingvild Kvale Moltubakk Stine Thordarson The struggle and enrichment of play: Domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parents Nordicom Review digital games parental mediation overflows domestication everyday life |
| title | The struggle and enrichment of play: Domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parents |
| title_full | The struggle and enrichment of play: Domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parents |
| title_fullStr | The struggle and enrichment of play: Domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parents |
| title_full_unstemmed | The struggle and enrichment of play: Domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parents |
| title_short | The struggle and enrichment of play: Domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parents |
| title_sort | struggle and enrichment of play domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parents |
| topic | digital games parental mediation overflows domestication everyday life |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0044 |
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