{"340401":{"#nid":"340401","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center  Brown Bag Seminar Series: Krystina Madej","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKrystina Madej\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPhysical Play in Games: Children\u2019s Engagement with Narrative Rhymes\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStudies in neurobiology substantiate the importance of physical activity in children\u2019s development. Grounded in orality and physicality, narrative rhymes enter our psyche at a young age to form a basis for physical, social, cognitive, and imaginative development. First read or sung to babies, rhymes are soon physically enacted by young children through play and games as they grow to be toddlers and pre-schoolers. Because of the physical immaturity of young children, and (until recently) the minimal physical engagement opportunities provided to them by digital environments, the physical engagement that has been an integral part of oral and print presentations of narrative rhymes for generations does not exist to any great extent in today\u2019s play within digital environments. This talk introduces research on the nature of children\u2019s physical engagement with narrative rhymes in which characteristics of young children\u2019s physical interaction with narrative rhymes in traditional oral and print media are contrasted with play in digital media.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Madej researches narrative, in particular the narrative as material culture, narrative structure, and user experience\/engagement with\/through narrative. \u0026nbsp;Her current work is in somatic engagement with young children\u2019s narratives across media, the Disney master narrative, and social media collaborative authoring. \u0026nbsp;She is presently writing \u201cThe Development of Narrative Intelligence\u201d about the characteristics of children\u2019s engagement with print and digital media. She co-authored \u201cDisney Stories: Getting to Digital,\u201d (2012) with Newton Lee and co-edited \u201cEngaging Imagination and Developing Creativity,\u0022 (2010) with Dr. Kieran Egan. She teaches at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, and at the Master\u2019s of Digital Media, SFU, Vancouver, Canada.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Physical Play in Games: Children\u2019s Engagement with Narrative Rhymes"}],"uid":"27774","created_gmt":"2014-11-04 11:02:57","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:21:15","author":"Alishia Farr","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-11-13T10:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2014-11-13T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-11-13T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-11-13 15:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-11-13 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-11-13 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"295041":{"id":"295041","type":"image","title":"Krystina Madej","body":null,"created":"1449244514","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:55:14","changed":"1475894993","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:53","alt":"Krystina Madej","file":{"fid":"199369","name":"krystina_madej_1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/krystina_madej_1_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/krystina_madej_1_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":19881,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/krystina_madej_1_0.jpg?itok=CYxslPxZ"}}},"media_ids":["295041"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}