Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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Jane McGonigal is a game theorist and designer known for arguing that games can improve human flourishing by creating systems better suited to our psychological needs than everyday reality. In the seminar's readings, she appears as a theorist of positive game mechanics whose work enables discussion of how game-like structures shape motivation and behavior, though the excerpts suggest her ideas are being examined critically—particularly in relation to how game mechanics and alternate reality games (ARGs) can be instrumentalized for political manipulation, as in the QAnon case study.

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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-Oxford University Press (2020)

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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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