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Serious Gamification: on the Redesign of a Popular Paradox
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Abstract We challenge the idea of the paradoxical nature of the concept serious games and ask how researchers and designers need to conceive of serious games so that they at all appear paradoxical. To develop and answer this question, we draw on a theory-method that considers all forms of observation as para... mehr
We challenge the idea of the paradoxical nature of the concept serious games and ask how researchers and designers need to conceive of serious games so that they at all appear paradoxical. To develop and answer this question, we draw on a theory-method that considers all forms of observation as paradoxical. We then use the tetralemma, a structure from traditional Indian logics, to resolve the paradox of serious games into this larger paradox of observation. Consequently, serious games may only be considered a paradox if we presume realities and define games as deviations therefrom. The increasing gamification of society, however, does not allow realities to be defined in contrast to games anymore. We therefore conclude that serious games do not represent particularly paradoxical forms of games, but rather next levels of reflexivity in communication design and in the self-definitions of next societies.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Theorie; Spiel; Reflexivität; Beobachtung; Paradoxie
Klassifikation
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
serious games; communication design; paradox; oxymoron; tetralemma; form theory
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
12 S.
Zeitschriftentitel
Games and culture : a journal of interactive media (2015)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412015581478
Status
Preprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung