[ecrea] Call for chapter proposals: The Internet of Toys

Proposals are invited for chapters in a new edited collection on the 
topic of ‘*The Internet of Toys: Practices, Affordances and the 
Political Economy of Children’s Play*’**

EDITORS

Giovanna Mascheroni Ph.D. ((giovanna.masheroni /at/ unicatt.it) 
<mailto:(giovanna.masheroni /at/ unicatt.it)>), Catholic University of Milan 
(Italy)

Donell Holloway, Ph.D. ((donell.holloway /at/ ecu.edu.au) ), Edith Cowan 
University (Perth, Australia)

TIMING

Chapter Proposals Submission Deadline: 1 June, 2017

Notification of acceptance: 30 June, 2017

Full Chapters Due: Jan 15, 2018

Review process: Jan 15 - March 15, 2018

Revisions Due: June 1, 2018

Deadline fully edited version to publisher: August 31, 2018

AIMS

This book aims to examine the emerging world of internet-connected toys 
(Internet of Toys or IoToys), where toys relate one-on-one to children 
and also connect to other toys, other children and/or database data. 
Using a children’s digital rights framework (Livingstone and Third, 
2017) the book takes a critical approach to the contexts in which 
internet-connected toys are used, designed, represented, researched and 
governed.

The book will interrogate the everyday practices and contexts of IoToys 
use by children in the home and in educational settings.  It will also 
investigate research and design practices that shape the play, learning, 
social and communicative affordances of IoToys, together with privacy by 
design practices that protect children’s rights to participation and 
protection.

Emerging research strategies and approaches in investigating design 
processes, children’s practices and embodied experiences, and 
commercialisation of children’s data—as well methods that include 
children as active participants in the research process—will also be 
included. A final section will examine the commercial datafication and 
dataveillance (Lupton & Williamson, 2017) of children’s play, and the 
policy and regulatory landscape influencing the production and 
consumption of IoToys.

POSSIBLE TOPICS

_Part I – Practices and Contexts_

  * Connected toys and everyday life
  * The domestication of IoToys in family life.
  * Children’s communicative and play practices.
  * IoToys and personalised learning experiences at home and school
    environments
  * Offline/online contexts of connected-toy play.
  * Embodied/disembodied practices of playing with IoToys.

_Part II – Design and the IoToys _

  * Designing play affordances
  * Provision for privacy and protection within toy design
  * Design methods with young children
  * Coding with IoToys
  * Individualised learning with IoToys

_Part III – Research strategies and approaches_

  * Researching IoToys use in everyday contexts
  * Research and design of IoToys
  * Researching cognitive and developmental effects of Iotoys
  * Researching multimodal literacies and the IoToys
  * Researching and tracking data flows
  * Researching digital materialities

_Part IV – Political Economy of the IoToys _

  * Policy developments and responses to emerging world of IoToys
  * Regulatory frameworks (gaps and recommendations)
  * The datafication and datasurveillance of children
  * Commercial governance and business models
  * Global/local geographies

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION

Extended abstracts of 1,000-1,200 words including references should be 
sent *by June 1, 2017* to:

Giovanna Mascheroni ((giovanna.masheroni /at/ unicatt.it) 
<mailto:(giovanna.masheroni /at/ unicatt.it)>) and Donell Holloway 
((donell.holloway /at/ ecu.edu.au) <mailto:(donell.holloway /at/ ecu.edu.au)>)

Chapter length, etc.

Commissioned chapters will be approximately 6,000  words.  Style and 
referencing guides will be provided to authors whose chapter proposals 
are accepted.  The  editors  reserve  the right  to  negotiate  chapter 
contents  to  avoid  content crossover, duplication and gaps.

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