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Plushies, Dollies, and Action Figurines
This chapter examines videogames with toylike avatars, including Pikmin 3, FallGuys, Scribblenauts Unlimited, and the LittleBigPlanet series. I...
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Dreaming the Myth Onwards
The material turn in cultural studies means that the spotlight has shone on child-players, but child-characters have remained in the wings....
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Child Heroes
In this chapter, I analyse videogames that cast a child-character in the role of hero. I point out the recurrence of cooperative mechanics in these...
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The Kid in the Fridge
Over a third of the named NPC child-characters in my dataset were murder victims, their brief lives cut short by drownings, shootings, stabbings,...
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Conclusion
This conclusion briefly recaps the tools offered in this book to enhance the interdisciplinary conversations between Games Studies and Children’s...
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The Child in Videogames From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous
Drawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children’s Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions of...
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Child-Killers and Killer-Children
I begin by contrasting the Waif archetype with the Little Monster archetype to highlight the anxieties about agency that are specific to the Waif. I...
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The Child as a Social Construct
Coded kids in computer-generated environments remind us that much of what we assume to be biological, obvious, and consistent about childhood is, in...
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A Survey of Child-Characters in Contemporary Videogames
In this chapter, I outline the findings of a large-scale content analysis of child-characters in contemporary videogames. I discuss the absence of...
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Parental Anxieties and Double Standards in Their Discussion of Young People’s Use of Social Media: Perspectives from a Qualitative Project in Sao Paulo, Brazil
In this chapter we will explore how parents of young Brazilians discuss their children’s use of social media, privacy practices online and...
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The UK ‘Video Nasties’ Campaign Revisited: Panics, Claims-Making, Risks, and Politics
In the early 1980s, a powerful campaign erupted in the United Kingdom which sought to control the production and circulation of pre-recorded videos....
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(De)Constructing Child-Focused Media Panics and Fears: The Example of German-Speaking Countries
Within German culture, popular discourses on children’s media use are dominated by anxiety and moral panics as soon as new media, new media content,...
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National Contexts for the Risk of Harm Being Done to Children by Access to Online Sexual Content
This chapter explores an international comparative case study of children’s experiences of online sexual content. It suggests that the dominant...
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Conclusions: Why Is ‘Childhood at Risk’ so Appealing After All? The Construction of the ‘Iconic’ Child in the Context of Neoliberal Self-Governance
This concluding chapter aims at both summing up the ways in which the authors of this book have contributed to the overall discussion about moral...
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Free to Roam? Pokémon GO and Childhood Anxieties
The extraordinary popularity of the augmented reality mobile game Pokémon Go, fuelled widespread concerns about locative media play. Whilst media...
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Discourses of Anxiety over Childhood and Youth across Cultures
This book revolves around neoliberal notions governing children and youth – a trend that permeates and dominates contemporary perceptions of "the...
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Children’s Grasp of Crime Discourses in the City of Monterrey, Mexico
Mexico’s past decade has been characterized by violent waves due to organized crime and a lack of State control over cartels. While audiences were...
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Uncertain Abuse and Insider Credentials: Examining Ambiguous Cultural Representations of Childhood Sexual Abuse in the 2005 British Comedy Series ‘Nathan Barley’
The study comprises of a close textual reading of the 2005 British Channel Four television satire Nathan Barley, written by Chris Morris and Charlie...
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Youth Hypersexualization Discourses in French-Speaking Quebec
For a number of years, youth “hypersexualization” has been triggering numerous discourses of anxieties as well as control measures in Quebec and...
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Risk, Anxiety and Fun in Safe Sex Promotion in Australia
Young people in Western countries are still being taught that sex is something dangerous. Research shows that presenting sex as a source of anxiety...