Refrains of Friendship in Young Children's Postdigital Play

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21650187
AutoresKenneth Pettersen (0000-0003-1864-1554, University of Oslo, autor correspondente), Christian Ehret (0000-0002-7589-1974, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Ano2024
Volume56
Fascículo1
Páginas27-50
Data de publicação2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Reading Behavior (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-4111 • E-ISSN: 1554-8430
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1086296x241226479
OpenAlexW4391393163
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas38

Today, digital media technologies are ubiquitous and mundane, making the relationship between digital and analog messy and porous. This postdigital condition prompts new analyses of how young children's local encounters with digital media technologies unfold, and how their relationships with digital media technologies carry on after they leave their devices. While sociomaterial approaches to literacy are apt to study how such messy literacies are enacted through singular events, they struggle to account for consistencies that emerge across events. Plugging into the concept of the refrain, we explore how felt consistencies were produced and scored two boys’ friendship through and across events as they watched YouTube, played Minecraft, and played with construction playthings. We find that felt refrains of “dwelling in novelty” were enacted, referring to the set-up of conditions where materialities acted together to produce affectively intense moments of surprise. As moments accumulated, deeply felt friendships were produced over time

Digital Literacy · Digital media · Friendship · Novelty · Pedagogy · Social media · Sociology · Surprise · World Wide Web · Child Development and Digital Technology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology · Social Psychology