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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Games as Cultural Rhetoric - Ch 30

Games are social contexts for cultural learning
-they are not passive
-help fortify a culture’s value system

Rhetoric: a method of discussion or expression that contains underlying values or beliefs, a method to persuade others that it is correct.

Seven rhetorics of play: progress, fate, power, identity, the imaginary, the self, the frivolous
- help construct cultural meanings

Transformative cultural play: when game play alters and shifts cultural structures

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