Abstract

COUTO, Edvaldo Souza. A infância e o brincar na cultura digital. Perspectiva [online]. 2013, vol.31, n.03, pp.897-916. ISSN 0102-5473.

From studies addressing cyberculture, childhood and play in the digital culture, this paper reflects on the children’s play culture in the connection era. The path traced started with the search for the most remarkable characteristics of cyberculture and went on to observe them in the children’s play culture. The main argument is that children belonging to the so-called Net Generation, who were born in the context of information and communication technologies, actively participate in the digital world and experience connectivity, particularly by means of mobile technologies. In such context, touching screens and playing are special ways of constructing subjectivities and existences, living and producing children’s culture. The paper has concluded that touching different kinds of screens, many of them on the palm top, translate much of what playing and playful mean today. Touching digital screens is the most expressive playful way that children have found to elaborate life through private and collective amusements and pleasures in the web realm.

Keywords : Childhood; Playfulness; Digital Culture.

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