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ERIC Number: EJ1466322
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Mar
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1468-7984
EISSN: EISSN-1741-2919
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Playing Minecraft: Young Children's Postdigital Play
Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, v25 n1 p133-157 2025
New sociomaterial and performative directions in literacy research on digital technologies and play in early childhoods may complicate the established concept of digital play. This study contributes to this line of research by empirically expanding on the concept of the postdigital. In the study, postdigital refers to how both "digital" and "non-digital" agentic materialities are allowed to act messily in contemporary early childhood play, unsettling the notion of the digital as a discrete category. By analyzing a case of two five-year-old children playing Minecraft with wooden and synthetic blocks in a preschool common room within an agential realist framework, we find that a postdigital play practice is performed through playful, sociomaterial configurations of "joining," "building," and "not running out of things."
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Education, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway