Digital Transfer of Traditional Games During the Covid-19 Epidemic: There is Game at Home! / Covid-19 Salgın Sürecinde Geleneksel Oyunların Dijitalde Aktarımı: Evde Oyun Var!

This article focuses on the work named “Games at Home” which deals with how kids and teenagers transfer their traditional games to the digital world. The work “Games At Home” applied because it is believed that this work will solve the problems on cultural transmission in covid-19 pandemic time p...

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Main Author: Meryem Özdemir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cyprus International University 2022-08-01
Series:Folklor/Edebiyat
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Online Access:https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/1238037431_4-covid%2019%20geleneksel%20oyun%20Meryem%20%c3%96zdemir.pdf
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Summary:This article focuses on the work named “Games at Home” which deals with how kids and teenagers transfer their traditional games to the digital world. The work “Games At Home” applied because it is believed that this work will solve the problems on cultural transmission in covid-19 pandemic time period. Work performed on kids that are between 4-14 ages, in total of 259 participant children and their parents. Gathered data is created by content analysis and by assesment forms given to the participants end of the training. At the same time researcher’s observations during the work and includes them detachedly. During the work participants are informed about the purpose of the work and the usage of the data and by that parents are informed about the importance of cultural transmission and researches aims to raise awareness towards the cultural games, at the same time it avoids the outrun of the scientific ethics. The work leads to some discussions which are if the digital world is proper for this task, is the cultural transmission can be done with these methods, is there a need of an instructor during the process and sustainability of the project. In conclusion, altough it is not possible to exactly distinguish games between traditional and digital and the contents which created are experienced during the covid-19 pandemic and it is manifested that it has a sustainability.
ISSN:1300-7491