Children's Active Video Games: Family Perceptions, Uses and Negotiations

Young children's haptic media habitus

B Nansen

2020-10-28

Young children’s engagement with digital media centres on their embodied relations, shaped with and through the interfaces, materi..

Young Children and Mobile Media Producing Digital Dexterity

Bjørn Nansen

2020-01-01

This book investigates young childrens everyday digital practices, embodied digital play, and digital media products - such as mob..

Postdigitality in Children’s Crossmedia Play: A Case Study of Nintendo’s Amiibo Figurines

Bjorn Nansen, Thomas APPERLEY

2019-02-21

This book examines the rise of internet-connected toys and aims to anticipate the opportunities and risks of IoToys before their w..

Discourses, dispositifs, and dispositions in young children's mobile media use

Bjorn Nansen

2019-01-01

Focusing on the digital lives of children aged eight and under, and paying attention to their parents and educators, this book sho..

Techniques of the Tactile Body: A Cultural Phenomenology of Infants and Mobile Touchscreens

B Nansen, Rowan Wilken

2019-01-01

A key dimension of young children’s mobile media engagement and play centres on their embodied relations, and how these are shaped..

Why Young Children Don’t Play: Parents’ Accounts of Non-Engagement with Digital Games

Bjorn Nansen, Jane Mavoa, Martin Gibbs

2018-12-05

Focusing on the digital lives of children aged eight and under, and paying attention to their parents and educators, this book sho..

Mimetic Production in YouTube Toy Unboxing Videos

Benjamin Nicoll, Bjorn Nansen

2018-07-01

This article contributes to research on children’s participation on social media by analyzing “toy unboxing” videos. Toy unboxing ..

Those LED-Lit Water-Kooled Multi-Screen Streamline Battlestations

M Gibbs, M Carter, B Nansen

2017-10-19

Battlestations are customized desktop computers, typically devoted to gaming. In this paper we present analysis of the all-time to..

Infancy Online: An Introduction

Tama Leaver, Bjorn Nansen

2017-04-01

This article introduces a Special Issue on the topic of infancy online, addressing a range of issues, including representation, pr..

Mobilising Children: The role of mobile communications in child mobility

B NANSEN, P Carroll, L Gibbs, Colin MacDougall, Frank Vetere

2017-01-01

This edited collection brings together different accounts and experiences of children s health and wellbeing in urban environments..

Toy Unboxing Videos and the Mimetic Production of Play

B Nansen, Benjamin Nicoll

2017-01-01

The paper analyses the role of young children in YouTube toy unboxing videos, where children and adults unbox various commercial t..

Why Young Children Don’t Play: Parents’ Accounts of Non-engagement with Digital Games

J Mavoa, B nansen, M carter, M gibbs

2017-01-01

Infants, Interfaces, and Intermediation: Digital Parenting and the Production of "iPad Baby" Videos on YouTube

Bjorn Nansen, Darshana Jayemanne

2016-12-01

We investigate the ways young children’s use of mobile touchscreen interfaces is both understood and shaped by parents through the..

Postdigital Interfaces and the Aesthetics of Recruitment

B NANSEN, null Jayemanne, null Apperley

2016-11-16

This paper analyses reconfigurations of play in emergent digital materialities of game design. It extends recent work examining di..

Young Children’s Touchscreen Media Habitus

B NANSEN

2016-10-31

The increasing prevalence of touchscreen and mobile devices in homes has brought computing and the internet into the lives of todd..

Baby gamers? Theorizing the ‘Haptic Habitus’ of Very Young Children, Parents and Touchscreen Technologies

B NANSEN, null jayemanne

2016-08-31

Methodological and ethical concerns associated with digital ethnography in domestic environments: participation burden and burdensome technologies

B Nansen, R Wilken, J Kennedy, M Arnold, M Gibbs

2016-01-01

This chapter reflects on methodological and ethical issues arising in a digital ethnography project conducted in domestic environm..

Parental Mediation, YouTube's Networked Public, and the "Baby-iPad Encounter": Mobilizing Digital Dexterity

Darshana Jayemanne, Bjorn Nansen

2016-01-01

This study collected a sample of YouTube videos in which parents recorded their young children utilizing mobile touch-screen devic..

Postdigital Literacies: Materiality, Mobility and the Aesthetics of Recruitment

T Apperley, D Jayemanne, B Nansen

2016-01-01

Proxy Users, Use By Proxy: Mapping Forms of Intermediary Interaction

B Nansen, R Wilken, J Kennedy, M Arnold, M Carter, M Gibbs

2015-12-17

Within Human-Computer Interaction and Internet Studies there is a growing interest in non-users, which articulates the increasingl..

Accidental, Assisted, Automated: An Emerging Repertoire of Infant Mobile MediaTechniques

B NANSEN

2015-11-01

Digital housekeepers and domestic expertise in the networked home

J Kennedy, B Nansen, M Arnold, R Wilken, M Gibbs

2015-11-01

This article examines the distribution of expertise in the performance of ‘digital housekeeping’ required to maintain a networked ..

Mobile Media, Ethnographic Software & Televisual Tasks: Ethical Reflections on Designing Research for Household Participation

M ARNOLD, B Nansen, R Wilken, J Kennedy, M Gibbs

2015-07-09

Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA)

Children's interdependent mobility: compositions, collaborations and compromises

B Nansen, L Gibbs, C MacDougall, F Vetere, NJ Ross, J McKendrick

2015-01-01

This paper discusses findings from Australian research that used a qualitative and participatory methods approach to understand ho..

Introduction: What 'is' Australian Game Studies?

M GIBBS, M Carter, T Apperley, B Nansen, L Crawford

2015-01-01

<jats:p>This special issue of the Transactions of the Digital Games Research Association Journal represent approaches by contempor..

Post-Digital Play and the Aesthetics of Recruitment

B NANSEN, D Jayemanne, null Apperley

2015-01-01

This paper analyses reconfigurations of play in newly emergent material and digital configurations of game design. It extends rece..

An Internet of Social Things

B NANSEN, L van Ryn, F Vetere, T Robertson, M Brereton, P Douish

2014-01-01

The Internet of Things is a vision for a world of interconnected smart devices. We present an alternative vision based on a review..

Homemade cookbooks: a recipe for sharing

HJ Davis, B Nansen, F Vetere, T Robertson, M Brereton, J Durick, K Vaisutis

2014-01-01

In this paper we contribute to the growing body of research into the use and design of technology in the kitchen. This research ai..

Kitchen Kinesics: Situating Gestural Interaction within the Social Contexts of Family Cooking

B NANSEN, H Davis, F Vetere, M Skov, J Paay, J Kjeldsov

2014-01-01

HCI research and practice have moved into the kitchen, and alongside screen-based technologies, a number of tangible interaction d..

Paradigms of games research in HCI: a review of 10 years of research at CHI

M Carter, J Downs, B Nansen, M Harrop, MR GIBBS

2014-01-01

In this paper we argue that games and play research in the field of Human-Computer Interaction can usefully be understood as exist..

Screen ecologies, multi-gaming and designing for different registers of engagement

M Carter, B Nansen, MR GIBBS

2014-01-01

In this paper, we propose the notion of screen ecologies and argue for its importance in the study of contemporary digital game pl..

'You do the math': Mathletics and the play of online learning

B Nansen, K Chakraborty, L Gibbs, F Vetere, C MacDougall

2012-11-01

This article reports on a case study of the web-based educational maths application, Mathletics. The findings are drawn from an et..

CHILDREN AND DIGITAL WELLBEING IN AUSTRALIA: ONLINE REGULATION, CONDUCT AND COMPETENCE

Bjorn Nansen, Kabita Chakraborty, Lisa Gibbs, Colin MacDougall, Frank Vetere

2012-01-01

This article contributes to the study of children and the internet by reporting on findings from an ethnographic study of children..