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
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      ab: 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. [•] These episodic frames suggest play must be relearned, as if over scheduling of children has eliminated their ability to make up games. [•] Journalists cited few sources that favor letting kids go off, unsupervised, and make up their own activities. [•] The results of this study may compel journalists to consider presenting play as more than a romanticized activity co-opted by nostalgic adults.
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