Playful Disruption of Digital Media

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cermak-Sassenrath, Daniel (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Gaming Media and Social Effects,
• Subjects: Communication.; Computational intelligence.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computer science-Mathematics.; Computer mathematics.; Philosophy.; Mass media.; Media Studies.; Computational Intelligence.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Mathematical Applications in Computer Science.; Philosophy of Technology.; Media Sociology.

This book starts with the proposition that digital media invite play and indeed need to be played by their everyday users. Play is probably one of the most visible and powerful ways to appropriate the digital world. The diverse, emerging practices of digital media appear to be essentially playful: U...

Table of Contents:

• From the Contents: Introduction: The subversive nature of play/games
• Part I Play,learning and reflection
• Questions Over Answers: Reflective Game Design
• The Phylogeny of Play
• Bodies in Play: Shifting between the virtual and physical body as a play element
• Blending & Blurring: Experiences with a Political Art Game
• Part II System,society,empowerment.