Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Jane McGonigal is a game designer and theorist known for arguing that games can provide meaningful solutions to real-world problems and enhance human well-being by making life more engaging and purposeful. In this course, her work appears in discussions of how game mechanics and alternate reality games (ARGs) shape social behavior and political movements, particularly in tracing how gamified thinking enters mainstream culture through phenomena like QAnon. Her framework for understanding games as systems that structure motivation and pleasure becomes crucial for analyzing both the liberatory potential and darker ideological uses of game-like engagement in contemporary society.

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Hugh Davies

The Gamification of Conspiracy: QAnon as ARG

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Tracing the evolution of QAnon from an obscure ARG from the deep vernacular web to its ultimate manifestation as a mainstream political movement, this paper has highlighted the social and political impact and import of games culture to QAno…MARGULIES, B.: Even If It Wanted to, the Republican Party Can’t Stop the Spread of QAnon Conspiracies and Candidates which Support Them. Released on 8th October 2020. [online]. [2022-05-22]. Available at: <https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/…[^33]: DAVIES, H.: Towards an Ethics of Alternate Reality Games. In Digital Studies/le Champ Numérique, 2017, Vol. 6, No. 3. [online]. [2022-05-22]. Available at: <https://www.digitalstudies.org/article/id/7306/>. [^34]: For more informati…

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C. Thi Nguyen

from Games: Agency As Art

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The positive part of my view might seem rather familiar. Jane McGonigal makes a similar point in her argument for making our lives more game-like. The world wasn’t made to fit us, she says, but games can be made to fit. Playing games is far…

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