ABSTRACT

The way in which individualised child agency is already ‘given’ ontologically in digital play research profoundly affects epistemology: how data is produced, analysed and interpreted. Co-created as part of a large-scale international study is a photograph ‘of’ South African six-year-old Zuko playing with Lego bricks. The agential realist diffractive reading of the photo as phenomenon traces transdisciplinary what is already at play materially and discursively in its specificity. Benefitting from recent work by feminist philosopher and quantum physicist Karen Barad and other agential realists, this article foregrounds the distinct contribution agential realism can make in children’s geographies. Moving away from either zooming in objects, or subjects when analysing data disrupts the adult-human gaze and brings into focus the apparatuses that measure and the relational spacetime entanglements objects are always already part of. Doing justice to the complexity of reality reconfigures digital play and agency as intra-actively relational – essential for reimagining more equitable futures in resource-constrained environments.

摘要

在数字游戏研究中，个体化的儿童能动性已经在本体论上被“赋予”，这深刻地影响着认识论：数据是如何产生、分析和解释的。作为一项大规模国际研究的一部分，共同创作了一张南非六岁儿童祖科玩乐高积木的照片。代理现实主义对照片的衍射解读是一种现象，它追踪了跨学科的东西，它在物质上和话语上已经在其特殊性中发挥作用。受益于女权主义哲学家、量子物理学家凯伦·巴拉德和其他代理实在论者最近的工作，本文强调了代理实在论在儿童地理学中可以做出的独特贡献。远离放大物体，分析数据时的对象或对象会扰乱成年人的视线，并使测量仪器和对象始终已经成为其中一部分的关系时空纠缠成为焦点。公正地对待现实的复杂性将数字游戏和代理重新配置为内部主动关系——这对于在资源有限的环境中重新构想更公平的未来至关重要。