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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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:2466
Date January 2008
CreatorsSchrape, Niklas
PublisherUniversität Potsdam, Philosophische Fakultät. Institut für Künste und Medien
Source SetsPotsdam University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeInProceedings
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightshttp://opus.kobv.de/ubp/doku/urheberrecht.php

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