MediaCommons' THE NEW EVERYDAY is happy to announce the publication of a cluster on EVERYDAY PLAY, curated by Sam Tobin of Fitchburg State University.

Everyday Play is a collection of mostly personal reflections on how play animates and transforms everyday life.  Contributors address a wide range of issues including: ritual, love, sacrifice, shopping, family, work, digital worlds, memory and skeeball.  

Carly Kocurek, "Love and Skeeball"
Raiford Guins, "66.135.205.13"
Judd Ruggill & Ken McAlliser, "The Everyday Play of Collaboration"
Marc A. Ouellette, "Married, with Children and an XBox: Compromise in Video Game Play"
Jennifer deWinter, "The Personal Politics of Everyday Play"
Steven Conway, "In the Game? An Everyday Analysis"
*Marc Ruppel, "How to See a World in a Grain of Sand"
*Henry Lowood, "Forbidden Areas: The Hidden Archive of a Virtual World"

[ * Mixed in from previous TNE clusters ]

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