Games, reflexivity, and governance

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jörissen
Department of Education
Chair (per pro) of Applied Media Science
Games, Reflexivity,and governance
Keynote held at the
3rd Vienna Games Conference
Future and Reality of Games (F.R.O.G.) 2009
Vienna, City Hall, 26.9.2009

„self-education though media“
„Medienbildung“

Digital Games
self-education
power

Jörissen

Media „Bildung“
Self-educational potentials of digital games (example)
„Bildung“, power and governance
Digital games and governance

Media „Bildung“
Self-educational potentials of digital games (examples)

„Bildung“ as a
complex learningprocess
versus „well-educatedness“
Marotzki, Winfried (1990): Entwurf einer strukturalen Bildungstheorie. Weinheim: Deutscher Studien-Verl.

„Bildung“ as a process of
structural transformation
of the individual‘s world view

„(reflexive) orientational
knowledge“
versus
„know what, know how“

orientation
coping with contingencies
flexibility
reorientation,
reframing of world views
tentativity
exploration,
creativity , trying things
openness towards theunknown
alterity

participation
demands
articulation
requires
recognition
through
processes of
socialinteraction

Immanuel Kant – Logic(1800)
Kant, Immanuel (1977): Logik. Ein Handbuch zu Vorlesungen. In: ders.: Schriften zur Metaphysik und Logik 2. Werkausgabe Bd. VI. Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp.

Orientational Dimensions

structural analysis with regard to potentials of reflecting upon …

Media „Bildung“

“New semiotic domains provokereframing of former world views,
because they call for
new cognitive patternsof perception and interpretation.”
Fromme, Johannes/Jörissen, Benjamin/Unger, Alexander (2008): (Self-) Educational effects of computer gaming cultures. In: Ferdig, Rick (ed.): Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education. Hershey: Information Science Reference, p. 763.

Media „Bildung“

Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
Professor for „History of the Systems of Thinking“ at the
Collège de France, Paris

„power“

„power“
„governmentality“
„regiment“
„subjectivity“

performative practices aiming to make dominating discourses visible

“Who allows to be captured by the dispositive of the ‘mobile phone’, however intensive the desire may have been which drove him to do so, does not acquire a new subjectivity, but merely a number which eventually can be used to control him… .”
Agamben, Giorgio (2008): Was ist ein Dispositiv? Zürich: diaphanes, p. 37. (my translation)

Media „Bildung“

How are relations of power and rule structured in the realm of digital games?

Juul, Jesper (2005): Half-real. Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds. Cambridge: MIT Press.

1. rules2. outcome3. valorization of outcome4. player effort5. player attached to outcome6. negotiable consequences of the outcome
"A game is a rule-based system with a variable and quantifiable outcome, where differences between outcomes are assigned different values, the player exerts effort in order to influence the outcome, the player feels emotionally attached to the outcome, and the consequences of the activity are negotiable."
Juul, Jesper (2005): Half-real. Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds. Cambridge: MIT Press.

rules don´t force:
they govern

playing a game
requires the gamer to
subordinate himself
to the rules

Don‘t just play it like they want you to.
Resist the imperatives of a game.
Revaluate the outcome.
Go explore.

Prof. Dr. Benjamin Jörissen
Department of Education
Chair (per pro) of Applied Media Science
http://joerissen.namebenjamin@joerissen.name
3rd Vienna Games Conference
Future and Reality of Games (F.R.O.G.) 2009
Vienna, City Hall, 26.9.2009

CulturalObjects
DigitalObjects
Meaning
(Narrative, Rhetoric)
„Physics“
Digital Sphere
Sociocultural Sphere
„Rules“
Scripts etc.
Identities
HC-Interface-Sphere
Input/Output-Devices

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