The"Growth Trap"of Online Games:Rural Adolescents'Online Gaming Activities,Media Intervention,and Social Reproduction
Scholars have paid considerable attention to adolescent online gaming activities,but they have often overlooked the dynamic connections between online gaming practices,family contexts,micro-power,and social structures.Based on a case study of a village in central Shandong,this research uses family media interventions in adolescent gaming activities as a starting point and attempts to interpret the relationship between online gaming,family politics,and social structure through field investigation.The results reveal that village adolescents are generally immersed in the world of online gaming.While these gaming activities shape a virtual space for adolescents'online interactions,they also lead to tension in parent-child rela-tionships,create family distance,and reproduce social isolation.Rural parents'management of their children's online gaming practices is characterized by a single approach of restricting usage,which in turn triggers strategic resistance from the chil-dren.The behavior and discourse of parental media intervention implicitly reflect an urgent expectation and anxiety regarding their children's social stratum mobility.Ultimately,this becomes an intermediary mechanism for the social reproduction of rural families as a form of family cultural capital.
online game practicesmedia interventionfamily politicsfamily cultural capitalsocial stratum mobility
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