Gamers in Ganglands : the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in Ocean View, Cape Town

This dissertation explores the contextual meanings of digital gaming for a group of children from the resource-constrained township of Ocean View, situated 45km outside of Cape Town. I document the domestication (Silverstone & Haddon, 1996) of mobile phones and PlayStations as technologies for gaming in this context, showing how the children appropriated the games technologies much as other household media are domesticated, in a process of double articulation.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Centre for Film and Media Studies

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Venter, Marija Anja

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Walton, Marion

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12054

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/12054