What do the game Battleship, carnival clowns, patriotic country music, and gender in the Oregon Trail computer game have in common? They all were represented at the session I spoke at in Rochester, NY for the MAASA/GLASA conference on play at Strong Museum. This eclectic group of presenters approached play in many different ways something I’ve come to expect from American Studies. While there I got the scoop on a new quarterly publication from Strong whose first issue comes out this summer:
The American Journal of Play will feature articles on such disciplines as child development, education, psychology, anthropology, history, communications, and museology and is aimed at a general audience of educators, psychologists, play therapists, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, museum professionals, and others interested in children and the importance of play.