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Digital Gaming and the Arts of Parental Control in Southern Peru: Phatic Functionality and Networks of Socialization in Processes of Language Socialization
Author(s) -
Smith Benjamin,
Barad Ashley
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of linguistic anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1548-1395
pISSN - 1055-1360
DOI - 10.1111/jola.12203
Subject(s) - socialization , ethnography , function (biology) , control (management) , sociology , the arts , social psychology , psychology , computer science , social science , political science , anthropology , law , artificial intelligence , evolutionary biology , biology
In this article, we offer an account of the strategy that parents in southern Peru undertake to control the “excessive” gaming of their sons. With this strategy, parents attempt to reconstruct the “networks” or “channels” through which parents and sons attend to, monitor, and are made communicatively available to each another, a strategy that requires them to—among other things—disassemble competing networks of socialization. Our analysis of this ethnographic material requires us to provide a theory of the role that the “phatic function” plays in processes of language socialization. [language socialization, phatic function, digital gaming, parenting, Peru]