Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)Adrian Hon, "You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All" (Basic Books, 2022)
New Books in Critical Theory
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Gamification and the World as Game
A lot of applications and parts of our world are becoming explicitly gamified. If you use financial trading apps, if you use social media you will see things that look very much like gamification. There are good ways in which to think of the world as a game but of course they're bad behaviors and games.
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