Exploring Discourses: Third Culture Kids’ digital lives

Abstract

An important question for research is the ways in which children from globally mobile families negotiate the different Discourses they encounter through mass-media digital technologies, the home, and the classroom. The study reported on here took the form of a multiple case study, which was undertaken at a European International School over the course of a school year. This paper focuses on students’ digital game play documented within the different contexts of classroom and out-of-classroom environments. It reports on the social dynamics and the productive outcomes made possible in spaces such as these, and the ways these children negotiated, appropriated or embraced the Discourses that they found as part of their ongoing work in establishing social identity.