Ethnography as Play
The author explores the similarities between the practices of ethnography and play, drawing on research of play in digital gaming environments.
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The Assemblage of Play
An exploration of the concept of assemblage and its application to the study of computer games, focusing on the interplay between technological artifacts, game experience, and sociality.
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"Striving play: pursuing winning for the sake of the struggle and the intrinsic act of playing the game itself.
Two clear parts:
In order to engage ourselves in striving play, I must be able to take on a disposable end that is treated as final. It builds the capacity to submerge ourselves in narrowed agential modes.
Being unable to do this leads to th... See more
Two clear parts:
In order to engage ourselves in striving play, I must be able to take on a disposable end that is treated as final. It builds the capacity to submerge ourselves in narrowed agential modes.
Being unable to do this leads to th... See more
C. Thi Nguyen • Games: Agency as Art
Games, then, are a unique social technology. They are a method for inscribing forms of agency into artifactual vessels:
C. Thi Nguyen • Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art)
Playful software often conjures up video games, but I don't mean that. Where I see the lack of play is in consumer software: design tools, social networks, dating apps, messengers. Borrowing from Brian Upton's The Aesthetics of Play , I'm talking about play that isn't segregated from ordinary life, “[play that's] embedded within ordinary life; some... See more
Internet Playgrounds
Play-to-Learn: Play is crucial for human growth and development. It allows us to explore and expand our creativity, connect with others and nurture our intrinsic motivators through getting in tune with an inner sense of purpose. One of the most effective and popular methods of play is through games.
Wavetable • Liquid Learning - The Edutainment 3.0 Report
Keely Adler added
Play can easily be dismissed as childish, irresponsible and unbecoming of the seriousness required of us modern achievement-subjects. But the demand for playful living is really a demand to reject the conditions of the achievement society. Embracing play is a bold defiance against the relentless productivity mantra of the achievement society. But w
... See moreAlec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play
Schlick also understood that his call to playfulness was not a self-help psychological switch that can be turned on and off. It also requires structural change to do away with work that is ‘mechanical, brutalising, degrading’ or work that serves to ‘produce only trash and empty luxury’. This means that capitalism, which subjects workers to severe p
... See moreAlec Stubbs • The Achievement Society Is Burning Us Out, We Need More Play
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