Placing gender at the centre of the debate about young children and multimedia, particularly video games, the book develops a relational approach to game play using an account of affect. The book explores central issues of violence and parental regulation and argues that economic relations are not remote from the micro relations of playing.

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VALERIE WALKERDINE is Professor of Psychology in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. Her previous publications include Growing up Girl (with Helen Lucey and June Melody), Mass Hysteria: Critical Psychology and Media Studies (with Lisa Blackman), Daddy's Girl: Young Girls and Popular Culture and The Practice of Reason. She is editor of Critical Psychology. She is also an installation artist.

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Book Title: Children, Gender, Video Games
Book Subtitle: Towards a Relational Approach to Multimedia
Authors: Valerie Walkerdine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230235373
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-51717-2Published: 15 February 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-58471-6Published: 15 February 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-23537-3Published: 15 February 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 235
Topics: Sociology of Education, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Youth Culture, Sociology, general, Psychology, general

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