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| − | + | Digital backyard is a term used to describe the transition of exploratory youth culture from the analog backyard space to the digital space. This is a tendency brought on by the fact that many families live in smaller spaces with less backyard space, spread out by geographic distance from friend groups. Playing together online is a distributed social network is a new form of backyard play. | |
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| + | In digital backyard play, children explore the extents and limits and offerings of a digital space vs. the analog space during adolescence. The new adolescence when connected. Using existent structures and experimenting with them. Going above and beyond to connect in new was or use existent structures for humorous games, pranks and challenges. Challenging others, as kids would do in the wilderness of the backyard during frontier settling, to push each other's limits, understanding what their own bodies can do, experiencing dangers and excitement, and exploring and discovering new things, their limits, and how they work. | ||
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Revision as of 21:38, 15 May 2011
Definition
Digital backyard is a term used to describe the transition of exploratory youth culture from the analog backyard space to the digital space. This is a tendency brought on by the fact that many families live in smaller spaces with less backyard space, spread out by geographic distance from friend groups. Playing together online is a distributed social network is a new form of backyard play.
In digital backyard play, children explore the extents and limits and offerings of a digital space vs. the analog space during adolescence. The new adolescence when connected. Using existent structures and experimenting with them. Going above and beyond to connect in new was or use existent structures for humorous games, pranks and challenges. Challenging others, as kids would do in the wilderness of the backyard during frontier settling, to push each other's limits, understanding what their own bodies can do, experiencing dangers and excitement, and exploring and discovering new things, their limits, and how they work.
Related Reading
- Backspace Generation[[Category:Finished]
