“We are all playing the game of trying (and often failing) to be productive. Can sociological thinking be a game too?”
#ICYMI: our #TSRGamesPlay issue, edited by Milena Kremakova, looks at elite sport, bingo, football songs, gaming, historical re-enactment, pool tables and more.
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“When children say ‘it doesn’t matter’ or ‘let’s try this’ and they play on, they demonstrate what it means to accept that errors and accidents happen.”
Games designers Edward Loveman, Jamie MacKrill and Adela Glyn-Davis write in the Magazine‘s new #TSRGamesPlay issue.
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“When I first started studying #sociology and sports studies, it was still seen as a marginal field, but now it has become a very significant area of study.”
Sociologist of sport Elizabeth Pike in conversation with editor Milena Kremakova in #TSRGamesPlay.
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“The boys stalk the table, making decisions and planning future shots. It takes more time to beat a skilled opponent, but there is also pleasure in enjoying a good game – something to be savoured, not rushed.”
Louise Laverty on social cues among young pool players in #TSRGamesPlay. buff.ly/3yk073P
“So what, really, is play? Editing this magazine is the most fun of my several jobs. It takes time, effort & dedication, but it’s probably the closest thing to play I could be doing in a professional setting.”
Editor @idleethnographer.bsky.social introduces our #TSRGamesPlay issue
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Our #TSRGamesPlay issue is out now:
🎮 Yaojing Wang meets the gamers who go it alone
⚽ Les Back tunes in to some pitch-perfect folk songs
🥇Elizabeth Pike on sport sociology, gender and the Games
⛲Carrie Ryan visits bingo’s fountain of youth
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Everyone wins: Can board games save the world?
Environmental sociologist Adam Standring looks beyond the classics to new, sustainable games such as Daybreak that emphasise co-operation, participation and communication among players.
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Ready player one: Yaojing Wang takes a look at the world of online gamers who play multiplayer games alone. Is this a symptom of a modern problem – or rather a modern solution to work and life stress?
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“An Introduction to the Sociology of Sports Mega-Events”, by John Horne and Wolfram Manzenreiter.
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“Gamification: What it is, and how to fight it”, by Jamie Woodcock and Mark R. Johnson.
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“Children encouraged us to embrace their way of thinking, showing us the potential in uninhibited curiosity and the power in embracing the unknown.”
Edward Loveman, James MacKrill & Adela Glyn-Davies write in #TSRGamesPlay on what they learned from their young games design advisers. buff.ly/4ddh66N
“Olympic Urbanism and Olympic Villages: Planning Strategies in Olympic Host Cities, London 1908 to London 2012”, by Francesc Muñoz.
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All work and no play: does performance sport rob young people of their childhood?
“We understand both the joy sport can bring and also the damage it can cause, particularly to children and young people.” Scholars Jack Hardwicke & Christopher J Matthews write in #TSRGamesPlay.
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“‘It’s easy for boys to walk to a pool table and play a game with someone they don’t know. But girls aren’t likely to want to mix with a gang of girls they’ve never spoken to,’ says youth worker Ben.”
Louise Laverty looks at social cues at a youth centre in our #TSRGamesPlay issue. buff.ly/3yk073P
“As sociologists, we need to dig deeper than our productivist society likes us to. In fact, play appears to be so central to human culture that Johan Huizinga called our species ‘homo ludens’, or ‘playing human’.”
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“Like in other gaming cultures, women re-enactors are often expected to play along without being the driving agents, as this is deemed inauthentic.“
Immersed in the past: Lise Zurné and Robbert-Jan Adriaansen hear from women involved in WWII re-enactment.
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“Sometimes books represent the world as it is, but books can also be precious precisely because they help us to imagine differently and ultimately to live differently.”
Les Back on Kirsteen Paton’s vital new work. buff.ly/4dpoSui
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“Women’s professional and leisure sport suffered more than men’s during #COVID19 and recovering from it. Just as women’s sport was on the up, the pandemic stalled that progress.”
Elizabeth Pike in our #TSRGamesPlay issue on gender & the #Games, #Olympic ideals & sporting reality.
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The #Paris2024 Olympics remind us that games and play are serious business. Can sociological thinking be a game too – and what does it tell us about homo ludens?
Editor Milena Kremakova introduces our #TSRGamesPlay August magazine.
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