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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483319503321

Titolo

Playful Participatory Practices : Theoretical and Methodological Reflections / / edited by Pablo Abend, Benjamin Beil, Vanessa Ossa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : Springer VS, , 2020

ISBN

3-658-28619-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (v, 161 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Perspektiven der Game Studies, , 2524-3241

Disciplina

793.01

Soggetti

Popular Culture

Mass media

Communication

Sociology

Media Sociology

Media Research

Informational works.

Documents d'information

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Playful Participatory Practices -- Institutions in Play: Practices of Legitimation in Games -- Intrinsic Research – a Practice-Based Approach to Computer Game Modding -- Editor Games: Digital Construction Kits at the Beginning and End of a Participatory Gaming Culture -- Ecologies of Friends: Boy Masters of Craft, Live-Streaming, and Pockets of Others -- Modding the Stage -- Digging Deep – Mud as Medium. Playful Encounters with the Soil -- Expanded Game Art and Neurointerfaces as Means of Produsage -- On Action.

Sommario/riassunto

The volume addresses the matter of participatory media practices as playful appropriations within current digital media culture and artistic research. The aim is to explore and trace the shifting boundaries between media production and media use, and to develop concepts and methodologies that work within participatory media cultures. Therefore the articles explore and establish nuanced approaches to the oftentimes playful practices associated with the appropriation of



technology. Contents Playful Participatory Practices.- Institutions in Play: Practices of Legitimation in Games.- Intrinsic Research: a Practice-Based Approach to Computer Game Modding.- Editor Games: Digital Construction Kits at the Beginning and End of a Participatory Gaming Culture.- Ecologies of Friends: Boy Masters of Craft, Live-Streaming, and Pockets of Others.- Modding the Stage.- Digging Deep - Mud as Medium: Playful Encounters with the Soil.- Expanded Game Art and Neurointerfaces as Means of Produsage.- On Action Target Groups Lecturers and students in the fields of media and communications studies The Editors Dr. Pablo Abend works at the Graduate School Locating Media at the University of Siegen. Benjamin Beil is Professor of Media Studies & Digital Culture at the Department of Media Culture & Theatre at the University of Cologne. Vanessa Ossa is a research associate at the Collaborative Research Center 923 "Threatened Order - Societies Under Stress" at the University of Tübingen.