Fun, magic and play

Deshbandhu, Aditya

doi:10.4324/9781003054030-2

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“…The snowball technique was chosen because of its inherent ability to first identify participants who would meet the study's pre-set criteria and then subsequently help identify and gather other suitable participants from networks the participants already selected interacted with. The snowball technique has been found to be beneficial in earlier studies in the subfield of game studies and the specific context of fantasy sport because the questions asked in the survey are designed to be exploratory to extract qualitative information and achieve an in-depth understanding of the topic in question (Deshbandhu, 2019, 2020; Deshbandhu et al, 2022). In order to achieve diversity and variety in the participant pool, two parallel snowballs were set in motion to find participants.…”

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Repurposing a WhatsApp group: How a fantasy cricket group transformed into a site of care and support during India's second wave of Covid-19

Deshbandhu

Sahni

2022

Mobile Media & Communication

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Set in the context of India's second Covid-19 wave (April–June 2021), this article examines the transformation of a WhatsApp group originally created to study a pool of fantasy sport players into a site of care, concern, and support. By using netnography and in-depth interviews to chart the various challenges faced by the study's participants, the article analyzes how key health information was curated, moderated, and shared by the group's participants during the period. Our findings indicate that during the Covid-19 wave, users of WhatsApp relied on the personal connections it offered as they found ways to make the platform their own. By harnessing WhatsApp's capabilities with regard to accessing and sharing essential information that was both timely and locationally relevant, users of the service found ways to stay informed in moments that were fraught with uncertainty. By analyzing the various ways in which the group's participants shared information with each other and outside of the group, this study argues that the insights obtained can be used to understand broader social realities and the possibilities offered by platforms such as WhatsApp that could help navigate the various challenges presented by the ongoing pandemic in the Global South.

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Repurposing a WhatsApp group: How a fantasy cricket group transformed into a site of care and support during India's second wave of Covid-19

Deshbandhu

Sahni

2022

Mobile Media & Communication

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“…India has the advantage of the demographic dividend (Singh, 2022), which also makes this country an attractive market and site for research as more young people have access to the digital and opt to engage in leisure and entertainment online (Deshbandhu, 2020). Arora (2019) argues that it is in emerging economies like India where the “next billion users” of the internet lie, and analyzing their practices online is key to understanding the future of the internet.…”

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Exploring children’s TikTok cultures in India: Negotiating access, uses, and experiences under restrictive parental mediation

Sarwatay

Jin

Kaye

2022

Media International Australia

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TikTok is a popular platform allowing users to view and make short videos. The platform's embeddedness among youth cultures is key to TikTok’s commercial success, to attract and sustain a diverse array of international users. The discourse around children and social media especially TikTok is laced with technopanics, as is the case in India. Although sparse, literature shows children in India want to explore social media but parental mediation usually follows a restrictive style. Using a qualitative approach and multimodal methods, we unpack how children (10–18 years) in a large Indian metropolitan city use TikTok for self-presentation and creative expression while navigating restrictive parental mediation. This article helps gain in-depth understanding of children’s TikTok cultures in India by foregrounding their voices and contributes to larger scholarship on youth digital cultures by focusing on their: (a) vernacular cultures on TikTok, (b) deliberations on safety and wellbeing, and (c) negotiations regarding agency and resistance.

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Fun, magic and play

Cited by 2 publications

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Repurposing a WhatsApp group: How a fantasy cricket group transformed into a site of care and support during India's second wave of Covid-19

Repurposing a WhatsApp group: How a fantasy cricket group transformed into a site of care and support during India's second wave of Covid-19

Exploring children’s TikTok cultures in India: Negotiating access, uses, and experiences under restrictive parental mediation

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