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Phi Theta Kappa Honors in Action
A research guide for the Honors in Action project completed by members of Phi Theta Kappa.
Dark Play
Articles that might help define/provide ideas
- "Normal" versus "Deviant" Play in Children's Literature: An Historical OverviewSome terms from this article include: abnormal, control, imagination or imaginary, independent, interpersonal, leisure, liberation, normal, progressive, responsible, social, spontaneous, survival
- 'Dark Play' just foolin'; Web lives chilling, comic(Not a scholarly article) Some terms from this article include: degradation, exploitation, fake, intensity, internet, loneliness, persona, "puppet master," ruse, sexual
- Dark play as a misrecognized need for redistributing (digital) goods: An example from an egalitarian societySome terms from this article include: "child development," cultural, discrimination, dramatic, free or free-flow or "free play," hazing, imaginative, individual, injustice, motive or motivation, pretend, "problematic behavior," "role play," rules, "socio-dramatic play," socioeconomic, teasing, values
- Dark Play in the Classroom(Not a scholarly article) Some terms from this article include: acceptable, alternative, chaos or chaotic, "code of conduct," convention or conventional, creativity, decorum, disrupt or disruptive, norms or normative, "power structures," regular or regulatory, risky, standard or standardized
- Dark Play of Serious Games:Effectiveness and Features (G4HE2018)Some terms from this article include: immoral, inappropriate, unacceptable, unethical, "video games"
- Deviant Practices: Technological Re-codings of the City through Radical PlaySome terms from this article include: intervention or interventionist, radical, participant-spectators, perform, "social code," subversive, transformativeClick "Download PDF" to access full text
- The Ritual of Dark Play in Brat CampSome terms from this article include: "alternative reality," anonymous or anonymity, conceal or concealment, confusion, disguise, hidden or hide, mask or masking, nonplayer, "rite of passage," ritual
- Transforming early childhood educators’ conceptions of “dark play” and popular cultureSome terms from this article include: agency, critical or "critical thinking," dreams, emotion, explore, fantasy, fear, fiction, "ghost stories," liminality, narrative, power, restriction, story or storytelling, surveillance, violence, wild
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Possible search terms/keywords from our discussions/other research
- addictive
- brain
- bullying
- challenge
- competitor or competitive
- consequences
- danger or dangerous
- destructive
- deviant
- digital
- dopamine
- exclude or exclusion
- fun
- gambling
- gamification
- gaslighting
- harm
- inclusion
- innocent
- joker
- "lack of play"
- manipulate
- "mental health"
- mindset
- "neurological disorders"
- neuroplasticity
- offensive
- pleasurable
- psychology
- safety
- "social media"
- tease
- treacherous
- uncertainty
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