{"id":537,"date":"2013-08-22T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T11:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.digital-cultures.net\/gamification\/?p=537"},"modified":"2013-08-22T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T11:28:24","slug":"gaming-gamification-and-labour-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/uncategorized\/gaming-gamification-and-labour-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming, Gamification, and Labour Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpi.edu\/academics\/facultydir\/jw3.html\">Jennifer deWinter<\/a>\u00a0(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iit.edu\/csl\/hum\/faculty\/kocurek_carly.shtml\">Carly Kocurek<\/a>\u00a0(Illinois Institute of Technology) are curating a very interesting issue of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellectbooks.co.uk\/journals\/view-Journal,id=164\/\">Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds<\/a> about gamification (issue 6.3 2014). The approach they are proposing is similar to the perspective we have been investigating at the Lab so far, particularly during the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/projects.digital-cultures.net\/gamification\/rethinking-gamification-workshop\/\">Rethinking Gamification<\/a>&#8216; workshop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sparklebliss.com\/blog\/?p=317\">This is the call for papers<\/a>, abstracts are due by 1st September 2013:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nGamification\u00a0has been celebrated as a potential solution to problems ranging from healthcare management to employee training to education (McGonigal, 2011; Zichermann and Cunningham, 2011; Kapp, 2012; Werbach and Hunter, 2012). However, even as\u00a0gamification\u00a0projects are rolled out in various industries, little time has been spent reflecting on the potential moral and political problems these same projects may present.\u00a0Gamification\u00a0often blurs the boundaries between\u00a0labour\u00a0and leisure, and not always in obvious ways\u2014creating game texts, playing them, using them as training, analyzing data generated by game results, and modifying work practices or work processes through games, are all forms of\u00a0labour\u00a0often disguised within the promise of fun. And, this sense of fun obscures the very nature of games as work (something that Sutton-Smith, 2001, and McAllister and Ruggill, 2011, discuss in their respective monographs), which then allows the\u00a0labour\u00a0of games to erode the boundaries !<br \/>\nof leisure and non-commoditised activities. [<a href=\"http:\/\/sparklebliss.com\/blog\/?p=317\">continues<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer deWinter\u00a0(Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and Carly Kocurek\u00a0(Illinois Institute of Technology) are curating a very interesting issue of the\u00a0Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds about gamification (issue 6.3 2014). The approach they are proposing is similar to the perspective we have <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/uncategorized\/gaming-gamification-and-labour-politics\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creativegames.org.uk\/GamificationLab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}