Procedural communities : infrastructures and platforms of recreation in America from 1945 to 2018
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This work analyzes three historically sequential forms of recreation and leisure—Post-World War II recreation centers, McDonald's and Yelp, and Minecraft in order to advance the claim that recreation and leisure—unproductive, voluntary, and ostensibly completely divorced from productive labor—has been one of the central, and more under-recognized forces in creating and sustaining communities in post-war America. It also develops the concept of procedural communities—process based groupings of individuals who were originally connected through a geographical arrangements of material recreation infrastructure, and subsequently through digital platforms, that helped inculcate shared modes of interaction in the world—seen through the lens of recreation, as it transitions from public infrastructures to private platforms. In spaces that were encoded with particular affordances, Americans could perform modes of sociality that demonstrated and inculcated a particular sense of what it meant to be a post-war democratic citizen: namely, someone with flexible, near-limitless choice, but with very clearly defined standards of what the range of that "limitless choice" would be.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Crawford, Mathias |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Turner, Fred |
| Thesis advisor | Turner, Fred |
| Thesis advisor | Bailenson, Jeremy |
| Thesis advisor | Edwards, Paul N |
| Thesis advisor | Hamilton, James, 1961- |
| Degree committee member | Bailenson, Jeremy |
| Degree committee member | Edwards, Paul N |
| Degree committee member | Hamilton, James, 1961- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Communication. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Mathias Crawford. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Communication. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Mathias Crawford
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