Video Games Representation in Animated Series for Children

Video games have long been part of our daily life. They are one of the popular hobbies bringing together millions of people around the world, a booming industry with a total of billion-dollars income, a subject of scientific studies by specialists from different fields of knowledge: philosophy, computer science, psychology, sociology, art history. The participants of other discourses – political, pedagogical, journalistic, etc. – take the similar interest for them as well. Mass and traditional media (cinema, literature) are also involved in video games discussion, and thus contribute to the constructing and broadcasting of related meanings and representations. Even animated series for pre-school and primary school-age children have not been immune to the topic. Considering the predominantly negative nature of the discussions circulating in the Russian public space, we decided to find out how exactly video games are presented in domestic cartoons. Do these representations correspond to reality, or are they a projection of social fears, typical of video game discourses focused on adults?

Keywords

social representations, animated series, video games, game studies, social fears

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06.11.2019

Publication date

02.12.2019

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31531

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GOST	Orlova N. Video Games Representation in Animated Series for Children // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2019. – Issue 11 C. 90-99 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250007454-2-1-en (circulation date: 19.04.2025). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250007454-2
MLA	Orlova, Natalia K. "Video Games Representation in Animated Series for Children." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 11 (2019):90-99. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250007454-2
APA	Orlova N. (2019). Video Games Representation in Animated Series for Children. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (11), pp.90-99 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250007454-2

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