Children, Media and Playground Cultures
Ethnographic Studies of School Playtimes
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Genomics of Plant Gene Banks: Prospects for Managing and Delivering Diversity in the Digital Age
Gene bank collections are at a pivotal point in their history. We review their development and explain how their role is changing with new technologies in computation and analytics and the widespread applicati...
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Sampling Wild Species to Conserve Genetic Diversity
Sampling seed from natural populations of crop wild relatives requires choice of the locations and the amount of seed to sample. While this may seem like a simple choice, in fact careful planning of a collecto...
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Conclusion: Forms, Functions and the Ethnographic Challenge
In this concluding chapter we want to offer some further reflections on two aspects of the project: the central themes it addressed and the research methodologies. The first part, therefore, will return to que...
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Framing and Interpreting Children’s Play
This chapter offers an account of the process of documenting children’s play and the approaches explored in seeking to develop credible interpretations of particular play events. School playgrounds are sites w...
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Agonistic Scenarios
There are two central concepts that inform this chapter: modality and emotion. I’ll begin with modality. The main sources informing my use of this term are Hodge and Tripp (1986) and the strand in linguistics ...
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Play, Media and Children’s Playground Cultures
Children’s play, as many have observed, can be elusive and puzzling to the adult eye. Roaming across different physical spaces, it poaches material from different sources, appearing often random and inchoate t...
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Children as Researchers
The purpose of the two ethnographic studies was to identify and explore children’s playground games and rhymes in ‘the new media age’ and in the context of the cultures and practices of childhood. Given the fo...
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Two-voice music programming system: The PDP-9 as an automatic electronic organ
A small computer was programmed to translate two-part musical scores into tables of numbers which were then used in the execution of the music through an amplifier and loudspeaker. The objective was to create ...
