CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND GAMES AND SONGS IN THE NEW MEDIA AGE

该项目将更新、分析和再现三个重要的儿童游乐场歌曲和童谣集：《奥佩儿童游戏和歌曲集》，以及国家英国文化传统中心（NATCECT）和利兹本土文化档案馆（LAVC）的精选集。该项目旨在保护我们民族文化的这一重要方面；但也探索如何继续成为生活在电脑游戏和互联网时代的孩子们生活的一部分。这种口头传统从媒体中借鉴了什么？它又如何与新媒体时代的娱乐和信息技术联系起来呢？该项目将以三种方式发挥作用。首先，它将把馆藏中的资料数字化，作为大英图书馆的一个新的数字档案，并设计一个可供教育工作者、研究人员、儿童、家长和广大公众使用的互动网站。该网站将在儿童文化展示方面开辟新天地，并将让我们合作小学的孩子参与网站的设计和持续时间。Opie档案的转换得到了Iona Opie的全力支持。其次，它将在伦敦和谢菲尔德的两所小学开展为期两年的操场文化研究。这将探讨这些游戏，歌曲和押韵是如何被今天的孩子们作为一个活的传统的一部分使用；再一次，它们是如何与儿童对流行媒体的体验联系起来的，比如漫画、电视、电影和电脑游戏。它还将对来自操场研究和档案的选定材料进行分析，重点是这种口头文化与媒体文化的关系，这是以前从未系统地做过的。第三，它将考虑像这样的传统游戏如何进入新媒体形式。它将通过为任天堂Wii开发一套游戏来探索这一点。这将涉及对Wii技术的创新改编，以捕捉操场上的游戏，使它们可以像电脑游戏一样玩，而不会失去其传统特征。这项创新得到了项目合作伙伴任天堂英国公司的支持，将由伦敦知识实验室的研究人员开发，并听取了项目中两所合作小学的儿童小组的意见。该项目还借鉴了大英图书馆、NATCECT和LAVC的专业知识。它由伦敦大学教育学院儿童、青年和媒体研究中心的儿童识字和媒体文化、博弈论和游戏设计方面的研究人员指导；谢菲尔德大学儿童和青年研究中心；以及东伦敦大学社会科学、媒体和文化研究学院。这个项目是在伦敦知识实验室进行的，这是一个由教育研究所和伯克贝克学院共享的研究机构。该项目将在一系列备受瞩目的活动中达到高潮：在谢菲尔德举行的儿童会议，在大英图书馆举行的研究人员、教育工作者和政策制定者会议，在BETT展上展示Wii的原型，以及一本介绍这项研究的书。最后，项目将得到由学者、游戏行业代表和儿童口腔文化专家组成的权威专家顾问团的支持。我们很高兴地看到，儿童奖得主迈克尔·罗森（Michael Rosen）已同意成为评委会成员。

This project will update, analyse and re-present three important collections of children's playground songs and rhymes: the Opie Collection of Children's Games and Songs, and selections from collections at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) and the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture (LAVC). The project aims to preserve this important aspect of our national culture; but also to explore how it continues to be a part of the lives of children living in the age of computer games and the internet. What does this oral tradition borrow from the media; and how might it connect with the entertainment and information technologies of the age of new media?The project will work in three ways. Firstly, it will digitise material from the collections as a new digital archive at the British Library, and design an interactive website available to educators, researchers, children, parents, and the wider public. The website will break new ground in the exhibition of children's culture, and will involve children from our partner primary schools in the design and duration of the website. The transformation of the Opie archive has the full support of Iona Opie.Secondly, it will carry out a two-year study of playground culture in two primary schools, one in London, one in Sheffield. This will explore how these games, songs and rhymes are used by children today as part of a living tradition; and, again, how they relate to children's experiences of popular media such as comics, TV, film, and computer games. It will also conduct an analysis of selected material, both from the playground studies and from the archive, focusing on how this oral culture relates to media cultures, which has never been systematically done before.Thirdly, it will consider how traditional games like this are making their way into forms of new media. It will explore this by developing a suite of games for the Nintendo Wii. This will involve an innovative adaptation of the Wii's technology, to capture playground games and make them playable as computer games, without losing their traditional character. This innovation, supported by Nintendo UK, who are partners in the project, will be developed by researchers at the London Knowledge Lab, informed by ideas from panels of children from the two partner primary schools in the project.The project also draws on the expertise of the British Library, NATCECT and LAVC. It is directed by researchers expert in children's literacies and media cultures, and in game theory and game design, at the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media at the Institute of Education, University of London; the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of Sheffield; and the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London. The project is based in the London Knowledge Lab, a research institution shared by the Institute of Education and Birkbeck College.The project will culminate in a series of high-profile events: a children's conference in Sheffield, a conference for researchers, educators and policy-makers at the British Library, a demonstration of the Wii prototype at the BETT show, and a book presenting the research.Finally, the project will be supported by an authoritative expert advisory panel of academics, game industry representatives and specialists in children's oral culture. We are delighted that the Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen, has agreed to be a member of the panel.