Re-Thinking Leisure in a Digital Age

ISBN-13: 9781138325418 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 132 str.

Michael Silk; Brad Millington; Emma Rich

Opis

This book makes the study of digital cultures central to understanding contemporary leisure practices, experiences, institutions and subjectivities and the place of (digitised) leisure in understandings of embodiment, power relations, social inequalities, social structures and social institutions. The chapters originally published in a special issue in Leisure Studies.

Spis treści

Foreword: lively devices, lively data and lively leisure studies Deborah Lupton  1. (Re-)thinking digital leisure Michael Silk, Brad Millington, Emma Rich and Anthony Bush  2. Young people, digital media making and critical digital citizenship D. McGillivray, G. McPherson, J. Jones and A. McCandlish  3. Video games and the political and cultural economies of health-entertainment Brad Millington  4. Exploring online fitness culture and young females Stephanie T. Jong and Murray J. N. Drummond  5. Be who you are and be proud: Brittney Griner, intersectional invisibility and digital possibilities for lesbian sporting celebrity Megan Chawansky  6. Towards typologies of virtual maltreatment: sport, digital cultures & dark leisure Emma Kavanagh, Ian Jones and Lucy Sheppard-Marks  7. (Re)constructing the tourist experience? Editing experience and mediating memories of learning to dive Stephanie Merchant  8. Immaterial labour in spaces of leisure: producing biopolitical subjectivities through Facebook Jeff Rose and Callie Spencer  Afterword: a new digital Leisure Studies for Theoretical Times Steve Redhead