1. The playful citizen: An introduction

Glas, René; Lammes, Sybille; Lange, Michiel de; Raessens, J.F.F.; Vries, Imar de

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“…Rather, we believe the problematic presented here demands a ludic disposition and concomitant literacies that fully exploit the transformative, resistant potential of play. Users’ proficiency in using TikTok is only a part of ludo-literacy; Glas et al (2019) posit that we should move toward critical and creative literacy. Through their use of the platform, users should unpack the meaning-making activity underway in games or game-like political activities and re-work them.…”

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“…Through their use of the platform, users should unpack the meaning-making activity underway in games or game-like political activities and re-work them. This entails identifying and critically reflecting on the stereotypes, codes, and conventions that order games (Kellner & Share, as quoted in Glas et al, 2019, p. 21). Through free play, TikTok users can identify what modes of play are encouraged by the platform and what fails to gain currency: an active engagement with the platform and its politics.…”

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“…Memes, GIFs, lip-synced videos, parodies, and so on, that critique contemporary political events are an integral part of our social media experience. Glas et al (2019) posit that play, media, and technology exist in a triadic relationship with each other, when the media technologies we use become more playful and are spaces where acts of citizenship take place. Play is no longer restricted to the playground but enters previously nonplayful domains, with the enactment of citizenship acquiring a ludic character.…”

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“…This also confers citizenship a more productive, participatory, and performative dimension—one becomes a citizen by participating playfully in politics (Gordon & Walter, 2019; van Zoonen et al, 2010). This necessitates two frames of inquiry: play as a way of doing and play as a way of looking (Glas et al, 2019, p. 16). The first studies the playful and silly civic practices through which citizenship is enacted.…”

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Playing Politics: How Sabarimala Played Out on TikTok

Vijay

Gekker

2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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TikTok is commonly known as a playful, silly platform where teenagers share 15-second videos of crazy stunts or act out funny snippets from popular culture. In the past few years, it has experienced exponential growth and popularity, unseating Facebook as the most downloaded app. Interestingly, recent news coverage notes the emergence of TikTok as a political actor in the Indian context. They raise concerns over the abundance of divisive content, hate speech, and the lack of platform accountability in countering these issues. In this article, we analyze how politics is performed on TikTok and how the platform’s design shapes such expressions and their circulation. What does the playful architecture of TikTok mean to the nature of its political discourse and participation? To answer this, we review existing academic work on play, media, and political participation and then examine the case of Sabarimala through the double lens of ludic engagement and platform-specific features. The efficacy of play as a productive heuristic to study political contention on social media platforms is demonstrated. Finally, we turn to ludo-literacy as a potential strategy that can reveal the structures that order playful political participation and can initiate alternative modes of playing politics.

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2021

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…The emergence of interactive and networked technologies is democratizing the construction and perception of social knowledge, the power structures in daily life, and civic and political engagement (Glas et al 2019). In this way, seemingly innocuous content such as games about personalities from the political sphere for mobile devices can lead citizens to cross the fine line that today separates full political personalization from indiscriminate government spectacle that is not limited to strategic vote-catching (Berrocal 2003;Balmas and Sheafer 2013;Segado-Boj et al 2015;López-Meri et al 2020;Zamora Medina et al 2021).…”

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Political Leaders in the APP Ecosystem

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This article analyzes the process of symbolic and critical-discursive construction of applications developed for mobile devices for some of the world’s most important heads of state through their manifestation in the ecosystem of mobile applications for iOS and Android. The sample includes 233 applications of 45 politicians from 37 countries. A content analysis-based method was applied to the discourse of these apps and users’ comments. The results reveal the dominant discourses in this scenario and identify the characteristics that influence their popularity, the influence of viral content and their reception in the connection between the mobile ecosystem and the political sphere. The discourse on the apps reveals a commercial interest and the existence of a diffuse diffusion of political commitment in terms of entertainment, parody and virality.

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Introduction to the Special Issue: Cities as Playgrounds/Playgrounds as Cities: Rethinking Urban Play, Civic Engagement, and Socio-spatiality

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Hjorth,

Lammes

2024

Space and Culture

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Cities have long been key sites for play. Play scholars, urban theorists, designers, and creative practitioners have explored and discussed the important role of city play and urban playgrounds. As organized locations of play, playgrounds stand as an important role in representing cultural and social mores, reflecting the relational, political, and psychological dimensions of the city. They expose how a city and its society views childhood, surveillance, control, leisure, freedom, design, and space. However, play in cities has a complex and uneven history.

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1. The playful citizen: An introduction

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