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Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical perspectives
The digital turn in leisure has opened up a vast array of new opportunities to play, learn, participate and be entertained ? opportunities that have transformed what we recognise as leisure. This edited collection provides a significant contribution to our changing understanding of digital leisure cultures, reflecting on the socio-historical context within which the digital age emerged, while engaging with new debates about the evolving and controversial role of digital platforms in contemporary leisure cultures.
This book also demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature of studying digital leisure cultures. To make sense of how individuals and institutions use digital spaces it is necessary to draw on history, science and technology, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology and geography, as well as sport and leisure studies. This important and timely study discusses both the promise of the digital sphere as a realm of liberation, and the darker side of the internet associated with control, surveillance, exclusion and dehumanisation.
Digital Leisure Cultures: Critical perspectives is fascinating reading for any student or scholar of sociology, sport and leisure studies, geography or media studies.
238 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 2 black & white tables, 8 black & white halftones, 2 blac
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 15, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138955073 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 226 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 243 × 18 mm · 482 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Carnicelli, Sandro (University of the West of Scotland, UK) |
| Editor | McGillivray, David (University of the West of Scotland, UK) |
| Editor | McPherson, Gayle (University of the West of Scotland, UK) |
