Families at Play: Connecting and Learning Through Video Games

by Elisabeth Gee and Sinem Siyahhan

How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning.

Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee offer another view. They show that video games can be a tool for connection, not isolation, creating opportunities for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262037467
• ISBN13: 9780262037464
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher