Children, mobile phones and outdoor play
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This chapter examines the affordances (Gibson, 1979; Heft, 1988; Kyttä, 2003) offered by mobile phones for instigating and maintaining play in an adventure playground in south west England. It is influenced by new materialist theories and posthuman geographies that seek to acknowledge the vitality of material things and decentre the human as an organising force apart from ‘nature’. Children are positioned in an assemblage of other human and non-human actants, providing a perspective that offers the qualities of non-human actants (most notably mobile phones) up to more nuanced scrutiny. An ethnographic approach was used to observe and record children’s mobile phone use, and ten instances were recorded, treated as exemplars.
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