The Internet of Toys
Practices, Affordances and the Political Economy of Children’s Smart Play
Editors: Mascheroni, Giovanna, Holloway, Donell (Eds.)
Free Preview- Presents the first empirical evidence on the domestication of IoToys in children’s everyday lives
- Provides methodological contributions that aim to address the challenges of connected play as an object of research, design and testing
- Critically maps out the political economy of IoToys
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- About this book
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The Internet of Toys (IoToys) is a developing market within our Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. This book examines the rise of internet-connected toys and aims to anticipate the opportunities and risks of IoToys before their widespread diffusion. Contributors to this volume each provide a critical analysis of the design, production, regulation, representation and consumption of internet-connected toys. In order to address the theoretical, methodological and policy questions that arise from the study of these new playthings, and contextualise the diverse opportunities and challenges that IoToys pose to educators, families and children themselves, the chapters engage with notions of mediatization, datafication, robotification, connected and post-digital play. This timely engagement with a key transformation in children’s play will appeal to all readers interested in understanding the social uses and consequences of IoToys, and primarily to researchers and students in children and media, early childhood studies, media and communications, sociology, education, social psychology, law and design.
- About the authors
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Giovanna Mascheroni is Senior Lecturer of Sociology of Communication, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy.
Donell Holloway is Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University, Australia.
- Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Introducing the Internet of Toys
Pages 1-22
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Asking Today the Crucial Questions of Tomorrow: Social Robots and the Internet of Toys
Pages 25-46
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The Uncanny Valley Revisited: Play with the Internet of Toys
Pages 47-65
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Toying with the Singularity: AI, Automata and Imagination in Play with Robots and Virtual Pets
Pages 67-87
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Postdigitality in Children’s Crossmedia Play: A Case Study of Nintendo’s Amiibo Figurines
Pages 89-108
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Internet of Toys
- Book Subtitle
- Practices, Affordances and the Political Economy of Children’s Smart Play
- Editors
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- Giovanna Mascheroni
- Donell Holloway
- Series Title
- Studies in Childhood and Youth
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-10898-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-10898-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-10897-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 366
- Number of Illustrations
- 4 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
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