Lerner, Josh A.

Making Democracy Fun : How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (285 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Should Democracy Be Fun? -- 2 Games, Play, and Democracy -- 3 What Game Design Can Teach Us about Democracy -- 4 Not Just Child's Play: Games in Democratic Processes -- 5 Rosario Hábitat: Designing Participation Like a Game -- 6 Toronto Community Housing: Game Design in Less Fertile Soils -- 7 My Game Design Experiment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Drawing on the tools of game design to fix democracy.

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Video games-Political aspects.
Video games-Design.
Democracy-Computer games.


Electronic books.

GV1469.3 .L47 2014

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