Periodicals>Journal Article: Cross, Gary , Play in America from Pilgrims and Patriots to Kid Jocks and Joystick Jockeys, Journal of Play, Vol 1, Issue 1, Retrieved on 2021-02-28Source Material [www.journalofplay.org]
Folksonomies: history play Memes
28 FEB 2021
Why Automation Didn't Result in Increased Leisure in the ...
Back then, many theorists believed that a progressive reduction of work time was the inevitable byproduct of mechanization and increased efficiency. Even John M. Keynes, noted father of modern mass-consumption economics, argued in 1931 that, within two generations, industry would satisfy the real needs of humanity and lead to “three-hour shifts or a 'fifteen-hour week.” This reduction in work time, said Keynes, would allow us to “devote our further energies to non-economic purposes.” ...Folksonomies: automation leisure
Folksonomies: automation leisure
28 FEB 2021
Play Has Become More Personal and More Intense Through Te...
A similar trend is the rise of personal vacations and separate activities on family vacations. Children’s street games (such as marbles, Hopscotch, and hide-and-go-seek) have been replaced with video games. Face-to-face encounters have been transformed by e-mails, electronic chat groups, and web sur'ng. Revolutionary as all this may be, it represents the clear culmination of a century of developments in media technology.
Twentieth-century technology privatized and homogenized play, but it ...Folksonomies: play recreation
Folksonomies: play recreation
28 FEB 2021