Laborious playgrounds: Citizen science games as new modes of work/play in the digital age

Sonia Fizek; Anne Dippel

doi:10.5117/9789462984523

Laborious playgrounds: Citizen science games as new modes of work/play in the digital age

Sonia Fizek
, Anne Dippel

Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review

6 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Via citizen science games, players are invited to contribute to the production of knowledge. In their chapter, Fizek and Dippel see the games as laborious playgrounds, with qualities associated previously with leisure or pastimes and with productive or useful time. The chapter investigates citizen science games as new modes of work/play, surpassing a strictly dualistic mode of thinking and showing how the capital-oriented logic of a productive human existence is encoded into play. Fizek and Dippel argue that such blurring lines lead us into an age of post-ludifĳication, urging us to consider these playful technologies and phenomena as empowering, engaging, and participatory, or to observe them with caution, restraint, or even suspicion.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Playful Citizen : Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture
Editors	Rene Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel Lange, Joost Raessens, Imar de Vries
Number of pages	17
Publisher	Taylor and Francis A.S.
Publication date	01.10.2019
Pages	255-271
ISBN (Print)	9789462984523
ISBN (Electronic)	9781040773116, 978 90 4853 520 0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462984523 https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048535200-015
Publication status	Published - 01.10.2019

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Research areas and keywords

Capitalism
Citizen science games
Playbor
Post-ludifĳication
Productive play
Work/play interference
Digital media
Cultural studies

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

General Social Sciences
General Arts and Humanities

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Fizek, S., & Dippel, A. (2019). Laborious playgrounds: Citizen science games as new modes of work/play in the digital age. In R. Glas, S. Lammes, M. Lange, J. Raessens, & I. de Vries (Eds.), The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture (pp. 255-271). Taylor and Francis A.S.. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789462984523, https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048535200-015

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The Playful Citizen: Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture. ed. / Rene Glas; Sybille Lammes; Michiel Lange; Joost Raessens; Imar de Vries. Taylor and Francis A.S., 2019. p. 255-271.

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