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Culture de l'information. --- Jeux vidéo. --- Sciences de l'information.

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Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards. In the act of free play (paidia), children as well as adults transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magical way. Even digital play is suffused with material culture: Games are not only mediated by technical interfaces, which we access via hardware and tangible peripherals. They are also subject to material hybridization, paratextual framing, and processes of de-, and re-materialization.

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The volume addresses the matter of participatory media practices as playful appropriations within current digital media culture and artistic research. The aim is to explore and trace the shifting boundaries between media production and media use, and to develop concepts and methodologies that work within participatory media cultures. Therefore the articles explore and establish nuanced approaches to the oftentimes playful practices associated with the appropriation of technology. Contents Playful Participatory Practices.- Institutions in Play: Practices of Legitimation in Games.- Intrinsic Research: a Practice-Based Approach to Computer Game Modding.- Editor Games: Digital Construction Kits at the Beginning and End of a Participatory Gaming Culture.- Ecologies of Friends: Boy Masters of Craft, Live-Streaming, and Pockets of Others.- Modding the Stage.- Digging Deep - Mud as Medium: Playful Encounters with the Soil.- Expanded Game Art and Neurointerfaces as Means of Produsage.- On Action Target Groups Lecturers and students in the fields of media and communications studies The Editors Dr. Pablo Abend works at the Graduate School Locating Media at the University of Siegen. Benjamin Beil is Professor of Media Studies & Digital Culture at the Department of Media Culture & Theatre at the University of Cologne. Vanessa Ossa is a research associate at the Collaborative Research Center 923 "Threatened Order - Societies Under Stress" at the University of Tübingen.

Games --- Psychological aspects. --- Popular Culture. --- Mass media. --- Communication. --- Sociology. --- Popular Culture . --- Media Sociology. --- Media Research. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture

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The volume addresses the matter of participatory media practices as playful appropriations within current digital media culture and artistic research. The aim is to explore and trace the shifting boundaries between media production and media use, and to develop concepts and methodologies that work within participatory media cultures. Therefore the articles explore and establish nuanced approaches to the oftentimes playful practices associated with the appropriation of technology. Contents Playful Participatory Practices.- Institutions in Play: Practices of Legitimation in Games.- Intrinsic Research: a Practice-Based Approach to Computer Game Modding.- Editor Games: Digital Construction Kits at the Beginning and End of a Participatory Gaming Culture.- Ecologies of Friends: Boy Masters of Craft, Live-Streaming, and Pockets of Others.- Modding the Stage.- Digging Deep - Mud as Medium: Playful Encounters with the Soil.- Expanded Game Art and Neurointerfaces as Means of Produsage.- On Action Target Groups Lecturers and students in the fields of media and communications studies The Editors Dr. Pablo Abend works at the Graduate School Locating Media at the University of Siegen. Benjamin Beil is Professor of Media Studies & Digital Culture at the Department of Media Culture & Theatre at the University of Cologne. Vanessa Ossa is a research associate at the Collaborative Research Center 923 "Threatened Order - Societies Under Stress" at the University of Tübingen.

Sociology of culture --- Sociology --- Mass communications --- populaire cultuur --- sociologie --- communicatie --- massamedia