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From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play
Carroll Pursell
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Description for From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play
Paperback. Along the way, he shows readers how technology enables the forms, equipment, and devices of play to evolve constantly, both reflecting consumer choices and driving innovators and manufacturers to promote toys that involve entirely new kinds of play-from LEGOs and skateboards to beading kits and videogames. Num Pages: 216 pages, 15, 15 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JHBS; TBX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 300.
In this romp through the changing landscape of nineteenth - and twentieth-century American toys, games, hobbies, and amusements, senior historian of technology Carroll Pursell poses a simple but interesting question: What can we learn by studying the relationship between technology and play? From Playgrounds to PlayStation explores how play reflects and drives the evolution of American culture. Pursell engagingly examines the ways in which technology affects play and play shapes people. The objects that children (and adults) play with and play on, along with their games and the hobbies they pursue, can reinforce but also challenge gender roles and cultural ... Read more
In this romp through the changing landscape of nineteenth - and twentieth-century American toys, games, hobbies, and amusements, senior historian of technology Carroll Pursell poses a simple but interesting question: What can we learn by studying the relationship between technology and play? From Playgrounds to PlayStation explores how play reflects and drives the evolution of American culture. Pursell engagingly examines the ways in which technology affects play and play shapes people. The objects that children (and adults) play with and play on, along with their games and the hobbies they pursue, can reinforce but also challenge gender roles and cultural ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
299g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421416502
SKU
V9781421416502
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Ref
99-50
About Carroll Pursell
Carroll Pursell is an adjunct professor of history at The Australian National University and professor emeritus of history at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of The Machine in America: A Social History of Technology.
Reviews for From Playgrounds to PlayStation: The Interaction of Technology and Play
An engaging social history of play... Pursell's text helps inform readers how capitalist structures focus as much on leisure as they do work or politics to cement their structures in US culture. Choice [From Playgrounds to PlayStation] is a fascinating read, and the mixture of facts, anecdotes, quotes, and other sources of research makes it quite an impressive work. PsycCRITIQUES ... Read more