Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures

Frissen, Valerie; Lammes, Sybille; Lange, Michiel de; Mul, Jos de; Raessens, Joost

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“…At the same time, scholars in cultural and media studies argue that we are witnessing a ludification of society (Flusser, 2013;Frissen et al, 2015). This observation continues the foundational work of Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens ([1938]1992), which pioneered the analysis of culture from the perspective of play, understood as a mode of structuring human experience (Henricks, 2015).…”

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Play in the Information Age

Sicart

2018

Philos. Technol.

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Play in the Information Age autotelic, pleasure-driven activities 1 . My main argument is that play has a privileged cultural position as an interface to the ICT-re-ontologized infosphere because it is a world-creating activity. When re-ontologizing the infosphere, ICTs use algorithms and processes much like rules, and it is play that orients human experience within the computational procedural infosphere. This orientation then creates cultural expressions that go on to iteratively define computational culture.Before I proceed, caveat emptor: I am formulating a very particular argument regarding ICTs, reontologization, computation, and play. To a certain extent it is a reductionist argument: just because computer machines are procedural does not mean that the infosphere itself is a procedural system. What I am analyzing is the gradient of abstraction (Floridi, 2010, pp. 68-78) of the infosphere. My goal is to highlight the role that play has in shaping computational culture, however, I am not claiming that computational culture is essentially ludic. Similarly, my use of concepts from computational theory is limited to a simplified understanding of how computer machines run processes based on rules. Within these epistemological boundaries, I believe my inquiry on play and computation is philosophically productive, and this is the scope and purpose of the article.This article is by nature multidisciplinary. As such, it may not satisfy play scholars, philosophers, or computer scientists. However, I aim to bring them together by combining the Philosophy of Information and Information Ethics (Floridi, 2010(Floridi, , 2013, which provide the theoretical ground for the analysis of computation, with Sicart's (2014) play theory, which supports the reflections on play. Furthermore, media and software studies (Manovich 2002(Manovich , 2013Galloway, 2012;Flusser, 2013) provide useful insights that help with the foundation of my arguments.I start this article by sketching general observations about the Information Age and the "ludified" society.Afterwards, I present my central argument: play and computation share the capacity to create worlds, and shape human experience. In the third section, I define play as an interface of (human) experience, the first key concept for the analysis of computational culture from the perspective of play. The fourth section outlines two different ways in which this interface can be conceptualized. The conclusions present the implications of this research program and briefly indicate future steps.As I have already suggested, I am not claiming that we can understand the Information Age from the perspective of games, or that play defines the Information Age. My argument is simpler: as a mode of structuring human experience, play is a productive lens for critically analyzing the Information Age. The ludic 1 Detailing the concept of autotelic is beyond the scope of this article. I use the concept in the way Csikszentmihalyi (2008) defines it, as an activity that has a purpose in and of itself. In p...

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Play in the Information Age

Sicart

2018

Philos. Technol.

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“…Narrative methods provide a good starting point to investigate individuals' identity construction, as narrative is the medium through which humans make sense of their identities (Frissen et al, 2015). Specifically, individuals articulate their identities by telling stories.…”

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The construction of gamer identity in narratives about video game playing and formal education learning experiences

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Cross,

Bignell

2023

Research in Learning Technology

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This study investigates how video game play influences gamers' formal education through perceptions of their 'gamer' and 'learner' identities. Based on identity foundation in symbolic interactionism, we take gamer and learner identities as meaning structures with both dynamic and stable dimensions. The basis of this gamer identity perspective is identity has a crucial role in investigating learning. Applying a life history approach, we interviewed 10 participants in one-to-one interviews, with three interviews for each participant. Applying the narrative portrait, we analysed participant data. We found that gamer identity construction from video game playing, as a vital meaning structure, has four main aspects, namely in-game identification, social community expansion, restorative effect and meaning recognition, providing gamers with expansive ways to build learner and personal identity as that can benefit their formal education.

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“…No momento atual, os riscos da economia digital são cada vez mais transferidos para os trabalhadores com precárias relações de trabalho, tipificadas por empresas como a Uber e a crescente proliferação de contratos do tipo zero horas. Essa tendência, se opõe à suposta 'ludificação' da sociedade proclamada por vários pesquisadores (Raessens, 2006;Frissen et al, 2015;Mäyrä, 2016), com muitas das tendências lúdicas sugeridas como sendo novas formas de controle e gestão como assinalado aqui. Embora possa haver mais engajamento com jogos de todos os tipos como resultado da rápida ascensão dessa prática de game-playing 2 como uma atividade de lazer primária e quase onipresente (Donovan, 2010), pelo menos no mundo industrializado, a crescente polarização da riqueza está longe de ser lúdica.…”

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Woodcock,

Johnson

2023

Eco-Pós

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Gamificação é entendida como a aplicação de sistemas de jogo - competição, recompensas, quantificação do comportamento do jogador/usuário - em domínios não relacionados a jogos, como o trabalho. Neste artigo, os autores distinguem entre dois tipos de gamificação: primeiro, a 'gamificação de cima', envolvendo a otimização e racionalização das práticas de trabalho pelo gerenciamento; e segundo, a 'gamificação de baixo', uma forma de resistência ativa contra o controle no trabalho. O artigo conclui com um novo apelo a essa ‘gamificação de baixo’, que é uma forma ideal de resistência contra a gamificação de cima e sua captura do jogo em busca do trabalho.

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Playful Identities: The Ludification of Digital Media Cultures

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