The Changing of play culture and electronic game: it’s meaning on children emotional ties and the loss of children’s sense of place in outdoor space

Main Author: Prakoso, Susinety
Format: Proceeding PeerReviewed Book
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2013
Subjects:
Online Access: http://repository.uph.edu/4011/1/Lamp%20B4.7.pdf
http://repository.uph.edu/4011/2/Lamp%20B4.7_review.pdf
http://repository.uph.edu/4011/3/Lamp%20B4.7_turnitin.pdf
http://repository.uph.edu/4011/4/Academic_Writing_Publication_Agreement_Form_susinety.pdf
http://repository.uph.edu/4011/
http://qir.eng.ui.ac.id/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/QiR-2013.pdf
Daftar Isi:
  • This paper investigatesthe changing of play culture affected by the present of electronic game,have impacts on children’s emotions as well as their sense of outdoor place.The study focuses on the voices of small group school-age children and their parents who live in a gated residential community in an urban setting located in Jakarta. The findings reveal that the additional member of family (since the birth of their brother/sister); parental fears and concerns on children independent ability to play outdoors, and electronic game as parent’s solution; have caused electronic game shifted the play culture before. This study also reveals that children place two different meanings toward electronic game. First, electronic games are represented as a joyful experience withhigh sense of positive emotional feeling attached to them. Second, as an unpleasant experience when parental controls toward electronic game take effect. In sum, children connote electronic games as an attachment figure that repetitively lures children inward. Consequently, their environmental range remains within familial space or microsystem. The outdoor space is represented as a fearful and frightening place. Their sense of place is low.There is hardly any outdoor place in them.