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.
tltaylor.comWhen we play games, we take on temporary agencies—temporary sets of abilities and constraints, along with temporary ends. We have a significant capacity for agential fluidity, and games make full use of that capacity.
C. Thi Nguyen • Games: Agency As Art (Thinking Art)
However, in essence he identifies four characteristics of play and relates them to the development of culture and civilization: (1) (2) Freedom. Whereas much leisure performs a cultural function by fulfilling ritual obligations or duties, play follows the dictate of voluntary enjoyment. While many play-elements have been co-opted by leisure to... See more
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To play an alternate reality game is to be drawn into a collaborative project of explaining the world. It is to lose, even fleetingly, one’s commitment to what is most true in the service of what is most compelling, what most advances a narrative one deeply believes.