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By Catherine Cheng Stahl Online play spaces have fascinated researchers since the beginnings of the Internet. The online world—with its lowered barriers to participation, symbolic and cultural resources, and tools for multimodal expression and self-fashioning (Burton, 2019; Kligler-Vilenchik & Literat, 2020)—houses a wide array of figured worlds (Holland et al., 2001) that are the intellectual…
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1 Abstract: CaShawn Thompson’s hashtag, #BlackGirlMagic, has transformed into a movement over the past five years. The hashtag focuses on celebrating the beauty, influence, and strength of Black women and girls. However, Thompson’s term sits in a space of tension, where contradictory interpretations create boundaries around what Black girl celebration means as well as who…
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ABSTRACTMany YouTube Influencers have intentionally shaped their content and channels into ‘sites of resistance’ that produce critical commentary about social issues, politics, and the state. When …
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Background: The study that is reported in this paper focuses on an exploration of the role and nature of play in young children’s use of toys that connect physical and digital domains. Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to explore the nature of the connections that are made in play that transverses physical and…
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Taking seriously the global trend of selfies becoming marketable and entangled in ecologies of commerce, this article looks at Influencers who have emerged as (semi-)professional selfie-producers and for whom taking selfies is a purposively commercial, thoughtful, and subversive endeavor. Based on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork and grounded theory analysis, I examine Influencers’ engagements with selfies on…
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Since the onset of COVID-19, incidents of racism and xenophobia have been occurring globally, especially toward people of East Asian appearance and descent. In response, this article investigates h…
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The excessive consumption of free sugars – sugar added to food, drinks and existing in honey, syrup and fruit juice – are endemic to the diets of Western children and a leading factor in dental disease. Recent public health interventions and legislation have aimed to safeguard consumer health. However, children and their parents continue to…
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ABSTRACTIn this paper, we investigate memes about student issues. We consider the memes as expressions of a new networked student public that contain discourses that may fall outside the mainstream discourse on higher education. The paper is based on content analysis of 179 posts in the public Facebook Group ‘Student Problem Memes’, combined with a…
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Virtual worlds for children are becoming increasingly popular, and yet there are few accounts of children’s use of these worlds. Young children are spending increasing amounts of time online as technology continues to create significant changes in social and cultural practices in the 21st century. Some of children’s online interactions can be categorized as playful…
