CHILDREN, GENDER, VIDEO GAMES: TOWARDS A RELATIONAL APPROACH TO MULTIMEDIA

May 7, 2023

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Updated: Dec 2, 2025

Valerie Walkerdine

The book explores a number of debates about young children and multimedia, with particular reference to video games. It places issues of gender centrally in relation to game play and develops a relational approach to game play using an account of affect. The book places games in a global context and argues that we should not think of the economic relations as somehow remote from what happens in the micro relations of playing. It moves towards a relational approach to subjectivity and explores central issues of violence and parental regulation.

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