Go out and play, but mean it: Using frame analysis to explore recent news media coverage of the rediscovery of unstructured play.

Highlights: [•] First frame analysis on news coverage play reveals the spontaneity in play valued by children and endorsed by scholars is absent from recent descriptions by journalists. [ • ] Journalists’ descriptions of play support the “rhetoric of progress” discussed by Brian Sutton-Smith. [•] Th...

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Published in:	Social Science Journal Vol. 50; no. 4; pp. 510 - 521
Main Author:	Bishop, Ronald
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2013
Subjects:	Mass media Frames (Social sciences) Spontaneity (Personality trait) Scholars Journalists Computer scheduling
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