Digital Culture & Society (DCS)

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This double issue of Digital Culture & Society addresses the complex thematic field of the dialectics of play and labour. The journal takes a closer look at the problem of play and work from two overlapping, albeit not mutually exclusive, perspectives: laborious play and playful work.
This double issue of Digital Culture & Society addresses the complex thematic field of the dialectics of play and labour. We will take a closer look at the problem of play and work from two overlapping, albeit not mutually exclusive, perspectives: laborious play and playful work.The term laborious play points to practices and processes that turn playful activities into hard work. Laborious play happens whenever playfulness turns into work, and may be observed in such activities such as e-sports, excessive play, »goldfarming«, and Twitch gameplay broadcasting, amongst many others.A complementary phenomenon to that of laborious play is the practice and concept of playful work. The promises of a joyful and rewarding working experience have been promoted as »gamification« while critical voices denounce such attempts as ideology, exploitation or simply »bullshit«.

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Pablo Abend
Pablo Abend (Dr.) ist wissenschaftlicher Koordinator des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs »Locating Media« an der Universität Siegen. Seit April 2019 vertritt er die Professur für Designtheorie an der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (Saale).

Themen in »Digital Culture & Society (DCS)«

Laborious Play Laborious Play Playful Work Playful Work E-Sports E-Sports Excessive Play Excessive Play Goldfarming Goldfarming Twitch Twitch Internet Internet Society

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Besprochen in:https://colognegamelab.de, 10 (2020)
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