Re: [xmca] online games as tools for sociability

Frasca sugest the term "simulation" and too concepts= Paideia and Ludus...
Ludus is a more estrutured experience (ex play chess) where paideia is a
more free form, like play "the sims"...

Here is his article about it: http://www.ludology.org/articles/VGT_final.pdf

Wagner

On Feb 3, 2008 2:23 PM, Linda Polin <linda.polin@pepperdine.edu> wrote:

> There is a relatively new journal, Games and Culture, published by
> Sage and available in print or electronically.
> http://www.gamesandculture.com/news/
>
> I would hope you would consider the term "play" over the term "games,"
> especially with regard to viewing play spaces such as YouTube and Gaia
> (http://www.gaiaonline.com/), where I think you'll find a lot of
> sociability activity going on through playful collaboration,
> conversation, and co-construction.
>
> Linda
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 30, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Luiz Carlos Baptista wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been missing for quite a while, lost in the jungle of
> > Philosophy of
> > Language. But now I want to embark on a new research project. I am
> > about to
> > start studying online games, which I see as tools for sociability
> > (in Georg
> > Simmel's sense). As some of you may know, there is a growing
> > literature on
> > ethnographical and sociological accounts of this phenomenon, and I
> > intend to
> > draw on this work in order to pursue a philosophically oriented
> > research,
> > dealing also with issues such as make-believe, joint pretense,
> > distributed
> > cognition and the intermingling of "real" and "fictional" objects and
> > characters.
> >
> > I am just finishing collecting the relevant material and hope to start
> > working on it in the next few weeks. I would appreciate any
> > suggestions you
> > might make, as well as info about good places to pursue this kind of
> > research (since I am interested in working abroad).
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Luiz Carlos Baptista
> >
> > **********
> > "The brain is a wonderful thing. Everybody should have one."
> >
> > Luiz Carlos Baptista
> >
> > Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem
> > Universidade Nova de Lisboa
> > Av. de Berna, 26-C
> > 1069-061 Lisboa
> > Portugal
> >
> > lucabaptista@fcsh.unl.pt
> > lucabaptista@netcabo.pt
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> > lucabaptista@yahoo.com
> > lucabaptista@hotmail.com
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