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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 27 October 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12091.003.0032
EISBN: 9780262361088
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262317849
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 11 October 2013
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/9804.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262317849
How kids play in virtual worlds, how it matters for their offline lives, and what this means for designing educational opportunities. Millions of children visit virtual worlds every day. In such virtual play spaces as Habbo Hotel, Toontown, and Whyville, kids chat with friends from school, meet new people, construct avatars, and earn and spend virtual currency. In Connected Play , Yasmin Kafai and Deborah Fields investigate what happens when kids play in virtual worlds, how this matters for their offline lives, and what this means for the design of educational opportunities in digital worlds. Play is fundamentally important for kids' development, but, Kafai and Fields argue, to understand play in virtual worlds, we need to connect concerns of development and culture with those of digital media and learning. Kafai and Fields do this through a detailed study of kids' play in Whyville, a massive, informal virtual world with educational content for tween players. Combining ethnographic accounts with analysis of logfile data, they present rich portraits and overviews of how kids learn to play in a digital domain, developing certain technological competencies; how kids learn to play well—responsibly, respectfully, and safely; and how kids learn to play creatively, creating content that becomes a part of the virtual world itself.