Playing with information : how political games encourage the player to cross the magic circle
- The concept of the magic circle suggests that the experience of play is separated from reality. However, in order to interact with a game’s rule system, the player has to make meaningful interpretations of its representations – and representations are never neutral. Games with political content refer in their representations explicitly to social discourses. Cues within their representational layers provoke the player to link the experience of play to mental concepts of reality.
| Author details: | Niklas Schrape |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-24668 |
| Publication type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2008 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2008/12/23 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Künste und Medien |
| DDC classification: | 7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 70 Künste / 700 Künste; Bildende und angewandte Kunst |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Tagungsbände/Proceedings (nicht fortlaufend) / Conference Proceedings of The Philosophy of Computer Games 2008 / Ethics and Politics |
| Universität Potsdam / Schriftenreihen / DIGAREC Series, ISSN 1867-6227 / DIGAREC Series (2008) 01 / Ethics and Politics | |
| License (German): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
