Artful play: Yrjö Hirn’s aesthetic approach to children’s play

The Promise of Play: A New Approach to Productive Play

Games are woven into webs of cultural meaning, social connection, politics, and economic change. This article builds on previous work in cultural, new media, and game studies to introduce a new approach to productive play, the promise of play. This approach analyzes games as sites of cultural production in times of increased transnational mediation and speaks to the formation of identity across...

To play or not to play.

The Promise of Play: A New Approach towards Productive Play

Games are woven into webs of cultural meaning, social connection, politics, and economic change. This paper builds on previous work in cultural, new media and game studies to introduce a new approach to productive play, the promise of play. This approach analyzes games as sites of cultural production in times of increased transnational mediation and speaks to the formation of identity across pl...

An Evolutionary Approach to Pre-Play Communication

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Play down protein to play up metabolism?

Who among us hasn't fantasized about a diet that allows ingestion of a surfeit of calories that are burned off effortlessly by ramping up energy expenditure? In this issue of the JCI, research led by Christopher Morrison suggests that this dream may become a reality; however, a complete understanding of the molecular interface that connects nutrient choices with our cellular metabolism will be ...