Making democracy fun : how game design can empower citizens and transform politics /

Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presentations, alternatingly alarmist or complacent, for or against, accompanied by constant heckling, often with no clear outcome or decision. Is this the be...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lerner, Josh, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]
Temas:
Video games > Political aspects.
Video games > Design.
Democracy > Computer games.
Jeux vidéo > Aspect politique.
Jeux vidéo > Conception.
GAMES > Board.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Democracy
Video games > Design
GAME STUDIES/Game Design
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
Computer games
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Should Democracy Be Fun?
  • 2 Games, Play, and Democracy
  • 3 What Game Design Can Teach Us about Democracy
  • 4 Not Just Child's Play: Games in Democratic Processes
  • 5 Rosario Hábitat: Designing Participation Like a Game
  • 6 Toronto Community Housing: Game Design in Less Fertile Soils
  • 7 My Game Design Experiment
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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