Internet of Toys

Giovanna Mascheroni is Senior Lecturer of Sociology of Communication, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy.  Donell Holloway is Senior Lecturer at Edith Cowan University, Australia.

• 1. Introducing the Internet of Toys.- Part I – New toys, new play, new childhood?.- 2. Asking Today the Crucial Questions of Tomorrow: Social Robots and the Internet.- 3. The Uncanny Valley Revisited: Play with the Internet of Toys.- 4. Toying with the Singularity: AI, automata and imagination in play with robots and virtual pets.- 5. Postdigitality in children’s crossmedia play: A case study of Nintendo’s Amiibo figurines.- Part II – Domesticating the Internet of Toys: Practices and Contexts.- 6. The Domestication of Smart Toys: Perceptions and practices of young children and their parents.- 7. An Ecological Exploration of the Internet of Toys in Early Childhood Everyday Life.- 8. Persuasive Toy Friends and Preschoolers: Playtesting IoToys.- Part III – Design and Research methodologies.- 9. Designing the Internet of Toys for and with Children:  A Participatory Design Case Study.- 10. Including Children in the Design of the Internet of Toys.- 11. Testing Internet of Toys designs to improve privacy and security.- 12. Video Methods: Researching Sociomaterial Points-of-View in Children’s Play Practices with IoToys.- 13. Hybrid methods for hybrid play: a research toolkit.- Part IV – The Political Economy of IoToys.- 14. The Internet of Toys:  Playing Games with Children’s Data?.- 15. Covert advertising on IoToys.- 16. The industry of smart toys: cultural implications from the political economy.- 17. Concluding the Internet of Toys.