Games in everyday life : for play / by Nathan Hulsey (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hulsey, Nathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Social aspects.

Video games.

Video games--Equipment and supplies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

In this book, Nathan Hulsey explores the links between game design, surveillance, computation, and the emerging technologies that impact our everyday lives at home, at work, and with our family and friends. The book delves into the role of gamification in motivating us to use software and applications, alter our behaviors, and to collect, display, and contextualize personal data. The author utilizes historical examples of pre-gamified technologies and techniques to explore gamification's growing effect on environments, bodies, and spaces. Reimagining gamification as a surveillance-oriented ideology that eschews traditional disciplinary techniques of control, he argues that gamification uses seduction, in the forms of game mechanics, to encourage people to submit their data in a strategy that utilizes play to promote social, economic and behavioral change. He asks: What are the consequences of leveraging play as a mode of control? What are the outcomes using of addictive design to influence our perception of work and play? As we become more reliant on the digital, will we all become players in an infinite game? If so, who wins?

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1. Game studies and gamification

Chapter 2. Defining gamification

Chapter 3. Gamespace, simulation, and gamification

Chapter 4. Histories of gaming and computation

Chapter 5. Gamification, power, and networks

Chapter 6. Gamified health and bodies

Chapter 7. The labors of play

Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

ISBN:

9781838679392

1838679391

9781838679378

1838679375