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

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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lerner, Josh, 1978- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]
Subjects:
Video games > Political aspects.
Video games > Design.
Democracy > Computer games.
GAMES > Board.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Democracy
Video games > Design
Computer games
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • 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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