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The Gamification of Society
The applications of gamification and the contexts in which game elements can be successfully incorporated have grown significantly over the years. They now include the fields of health, education, work, the media and many others. However, the human and social sciences still neglect the analysis and critique of gamification. Research conducted in this area tends to focus on game objects and not gamifications logic as its ideological dimension. Considering that the game, as a model and a reference, laden with social value, deserves to be questioned beyond its objects, The Gamification of Society gathers together texts, observations and criticisms that question the influence that games and their mechanics have on wider society. The empirical research presented in this book (examining designers practices, early childhood, political action, the quantified self, etc.) also probes several different national contexts those of Norway, Belgium, the United States and France, among others.
Live Performance and Video Games
Narrative strategies, immersion, interaction, participation, identification, multimodality, characters and the connection between physical and fictional or virtual worlds: the fields of inquiry into the complex relationship between live performance and video games are numerous and diverse. For the first time, this collection brings together international researchers and artists to explore this relationship in a variety of essays. The contributors to this volume focus on reciprocal inspirations, appropriations and transfers applied by theatre artists, game designers and researchers. They analyze several artistic forms such as VR performance, immersive theatre, speedrunning or game theatre.
Working on Innovation
Since the mid-1980s, the development of competitive strategies based on intensive innovation has deeply transformed the design of new products and services. The purpose of this book is to put forward a number of keys for understanding the ongoing dynamics for working professionals in the field of innovation.
The Business of Gamification
At the turn of the century the term "gamification" was introduced as a concept to understand the process of using game mechanics in "non-game" contexts. The impact of gamification was soon evident to business practices where it had impact both on marketing and, more broadly, on the organizations themselves. As the number of individuals playing video games grows, there seem to be an acceptance of game mechanics elsewhere. Its effectiveness is highly dependent on both technical possibilities and cultural acceptance, two factors present today. The aim of The Business of Gamification is to critically analyze the practical and theoretical consequences of gamification. Practically, how has gamific...
Theoretical Anthropology or How to Observe a Human Being
It may seem obvious that the human being has always been present in anthropology. This book, however, reveals that he has never really been a part of it. Theoretical Anthropology or How to Observe a Human Being establishes the foundations and conditions, both theoretical and methodological, which make it possible to consider the human being as a topic of observation and analysis, for himself as an entity, and not in the perspective of understanding social and cultural phenomena. In debate with both anthropologists and philosophers, this book describes and analyzes the human being as a “volume”. To this end, a specific lexicon is built around the notions of volume, volumography and volumology. These notions are further illustrated and enriched by several drawings.
Cahiers de la recherche sur l'éducation et les savoirs, n°12/2013
Il n'existe pas, à proprement parler, d’anthropologie du bonheur. Cet ouvrage tente rompre ce silence, en interroger les motifs et propose, en faisant dialoguer différentes approches du bonheur dans des cultures parfois fort éloignées les unes des autres.
Postcritical Management Studies
This book is the first of its kind to offer a new definition of contemporary management. It uses Henrys philosophy and takes the real, sensitive and pathetic subjectivity of individuals as the starting point of the analysis as opposed to the usual large categories of representations; resources; images; and discourses. This book thus proposes to rethink management by insisting on the dialectic of strength and vulnerability; its power of constraint, imitation and imagination; and finally its framework of action situated in a fourfold concern for the self, for people, for institutions and for the environment. These different notions are useful in order to experience a deeper understanding of management that is free from the obsolescence of the distant recommendations of ancient protomanagement and the outdated and dubious prescriptions of the so-called scientific management.
Tourismophobia
At the heart of “tourismophobia”, past and present, is the question of the masses and the differentiation between those who call themselves “travellers”, denying their own tourism, and tourists. Tourismophobia studies the persistence of the repulsion for them, and though their number is infinitely greater today, they are no longer socially the same and practices have radically changed. This book brings this cultural invariant out of the shadows to understand the driving forces behind this social posture, which has taken a new turn with climate change. Without overlooking the negative effects of tourism, this book is a response to the current debate on “overtourism”, which is the most contemporary form of tourismophobia.
Direito, Tecnologia e Trabalho
A questão social central, quando analisamos o trabalho por meio de plataformas digitais, repousa justamente no tipo de sociedade em que queremos viver. Francielle Silva de Oliveira Flores e Valdete Souto Severo (p. 34) A possibilidade de que o resultado do emprego das nanotecnologias possa trazer riscos à saúde e prejuízos ao meio ambiente, em lugar de beneficiar a humanidade com a solução para inúmeros problemas, precisa ser o foco de atenção, especialmente no atual contexto de consecutivas tentativas de ataques aos direitos já assegurados aos trabalhadores. Patrícia Santos Martins (p. 147) A gestão gamificada do trabalho não é um jogo de sorte ou azar. O algoritmo não é ale...
