Andrew Burnis a Professor in the Department of Culture, Communication and Media at the Institute of Education, University of London. Chris Richards, also of the Department of Culture, Communication and Media, has recently retired.

• Contents: Children’s playground games in the new media age, Andrew Burn; The Opie recordings: what’s left to be heard?, Laura Jopson, Andrew Burn and Jonathan Robinson; ’That’s how the whole hand-clap thing passes on’: online/offline transmission and multimodal variation in a children’s clapping game, Julia C. Bishop; Rough play, play fighting and surveillance: school playgrounds as sites of dissonance, controversy and fun, Chris Richards; The relationship between online and offline play: friendship and exclusion, Jackie Marsh; Remixing children’s cultures: media-referenced play on the playground, Rebekah Willett; The game catcher: a computer game and research tool for embodied movement, Grethe Mitchell; Co-curating children’s play cultures, John Potter; Postscript: the people in the playground, Chris Richards and Andrew Burn; Index.

’The editors and their contributors bring the understanding of children, play and media to new levels with carefully formulated, insightful and sensitive research that refuses to dwell in the comfort of the standard categories and fears which so often dominate discussions of this topic. In the process, Children’s Games in the New Media Age helps reclaim children’s play as a living, ongoing and generative site of culture.' Daniel Thomas Cook, Rutgers University, USA, author of The Commodification of Childhood ’...the contextualisation, range of methodologies employed and analytical commentary make the research project and this concomitant collection of essays a timely addition to childhood studies. As well as observing similarities with the Opies’ original findings, the project also sees the effects of technology’s influence on children’s games in the twenty-first century. This study therefore provides a substantial stepping stone for future researchers in children’s play in an increasingly digital world.’ International Research Society for Children’s Literature