images from the ‘gamified scholarship’ seminar:

reading:

Foxman, Maxwell 2014.‘How to Win Foursquare: body and space in a gamified world’. In Mathias Fuchs, Sonia Fizek, Paolo Ruffino & Niklas Schrape (eds) Rethinking Gamification, Luneberg: meson press, pp.71-90.

Ian Bogost 2011 ‘Gamification is bullshit‘

further reading:

Bogost, Ian 2010. Persuasive Games: the expressive power of videogames. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Flanagan, Mary 2009. Critical Play: radical game design. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Introduction here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262062688_sch_0001.pdf

Fuchs, Mathias, Fizek, Sonia, Ruffino, Paolo & Schrape, Niklas (eds) 2014. Rethinking Gamification. Amsterdam: meson press. Also online: http://projects.digital-cultures.net/meson-press/files/2014/06/9783957960016-rethinking-gamification.pdf

MacGonigal, Jane 2011. Reality is Broken: how games make us better and how they can change the world. Penguin.

media theory

In search of the mobile audience

January 26, 2015 Seth Giddings

reading for the seminar (and for next week): Foxman, Maxwell 2014. ‘How to Win Foursquare: body and space in a gamified world’. In Mathias Fuchs, Sonia Fizek, Paolo Ruffino & Niklas Schrape (eds) Rethinking Gamification, Luneberg: meson press, pp.71-90.

media theory

Global transmedia & the everyday: LEGO case study

January 26, 2015 Seth Giddings

reading: Lauwaert, Maaike (2009). The Place of Play: toys and digital cultures [pdf]. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Please read Part II, section 8 ‘Brand extension and product differentiation’ pp.58-62.

(Section 7 ‘LEGO toys: from wooden blocks to plastic bricks’ pp.50-58. provides a useful history of LEGO and a thoughtful account of the bricks as material technologies so read it as well if you are interested).