Gamers in Ganglands : the ecology of gaming and participation amongst a select group of children in Ocean View, Cape Town
Marija Anja Venter · Open University of Cape Town (University of Cape Town) · 2012
This dissertation explores the contextual meanings of digital gaming for a group of children from the resource-constrained township of Ocean View, situated 45km outside of Cape Town. I document the domestication (Silverstone & Haddon, 1996) of mobile phones and PlayStations as technologies for gaming in this context, showing how the children appropriated the games technologies much as other household media are domesticated, in a process of double articulation.