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Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Year

2019

eBook ISBN

9789048535200

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Media Studies

Index

Social Sciences

Contents
1. The playful citizen: An introduction
Part I Ludo-literacies
Introduction to Part I
2. Engagement in play, engagement in politics : Playing political video games
3. Analytical game design : Game-making as a cultural technique in a gamified society
4. Re-thinking the social documentary
5. Collapsus, or how to make players become ecological citizens
6. The broken toy tactic: Clockwork worlds and activist games
7. Video games and the engaged citizen : On the ambiguity of digital play
Part II Ludo-epistemologies
Introduction to Part II
8. Public laboratory: Play and civic engagement
9. Sensing the air and experimenting with environmental citizenship
10. Biohacking: Playing with technology
11. Ludo-epistemology: Playing with the rules in citizen science games
12. The playful scientist: Stimulating playful communities for science practice
13. Laborious playgrounds : Citizen science games as new modes of work/play in the digital age
Part III Ludo-politics
Introduction to Part III
14. On participatory politics as a game changer and the politics of participation
15. Playing with politics: Memory, orientation, and tactility
16. Meaningful inefficiencies : Resisting the logic of technological efficiency in the design of civic systems
17. Permanent revolution: Occupying democracy
18. The playful city: Citizens making the smart city
19. Dissent at a distance
20. Playing with power : Casual politicking as a new frame for political analysis
Index of names
Index of subjects

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