Play and Productivity: The Constitution of Ageing Adults in Research on Digital Games

Digital games are increasingly an integral part of daily life for people of all ages and genders. Based on a Foucauldian notion of power and discourse, the central question discussed here is how people above the age of 60 and their engagement with digital games are constituted within existing resear...

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