Social and Citizenship Competencies in a Multiuser Virtual Game

Mejía, G. Mauricio; Londoño, Felipe; Escandón, Paula Andrea

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“…However, few studies deal with the dynamics of citizenship competences in society. For instance, Mejía et al (2011) present a multiuser game in which players take individual decisions to advance in the game, focusing on peaceful interaction, participation, and respect. Another example is a videogame focused on citizenship competences in which the gamer acts as the mayor of the city by solving social conflicts (Acosta-Medina et al, 2021).…”

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An Agent-Based Social Simulation for Citizenship Competences and Conflict Resolution Styles

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Morales

2022

International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems

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The development of citizenship competences plays an important role in a complex system like society. Thus, to analyze how such competences impact other contexts is a great challenge because this kind of study involves the work with people and the use of variables that depend on human behaviors. In this sense, many studies have highlighted the advantage of using simulation systems and tools. In particular, the agent-based social simulation field relies upon the Semantic Web to manage knowledge representation in social scenarios. This study focuses on how citizenship competences impact conflict resolution. Moreover, a simulation model in which citizens interact to resolve conflicts by considering citizenship competences and conflict resolution styles is also introduced. It was developed in NetLogo together with an extension that connects it with the ontology of competences. Results show that the higher interactions of citizens-conflicts, the higher level of citizenship competences, and the number of conflicts solved is higher when using citizenship competences.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%