6. Game Definition
• “Games provide safe ways to experience reality”
(Crawford, 1982)
• “A competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance on the
part of two or more persons who play according to a set of rules,
usually for their own amusement or for that of spectators.”
(2016 Dictionary.com, LLC)
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15. Social Media Ecologies
Classification by Cavazza (2011)
•Publish
•Share
•Discuss
•Commerce
•Location
•Network
•Games
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16. Social Media: Games
Social gamming platforms
• Mercado de consumidores de jogos
• “screenagers- Net addicted, losing their social skills, and they have no time for
sports or healthy activities”
• 81% of teens play online games
• Video games also teach young people to work in teams
(Tapscot, 2009)
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18. Social Media: Games Top 10
1. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
2. Madden NFL 15
3. Destiny
4. Grand Theft Auto V
5. Minecraft
6. Super Smash Bros
7. NBA 2K15
8. Watch Dogs
9. FIFA 15
10. Call Of Duty: Ghosts
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19. Social Media|Games|World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft
• Create an Avatar
• Explore the vast virtual world,
• Complete quests, improve skills, and battle monsters
• As you succeed, you earn virtual money and other items, gain reputation
• http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/
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20. Social Media|Games|Minecraft
Minecraft
• A game about breaking and placing blocks.
• Build structures to protect against nocturnal monsters
• Players work together to create wonderful, imaginative thing
https://minecraft.net/
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28. Social Media|Games|Defense of the Ancients
DOTA
• A game about
http://www.playdota.com/
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29. Game Definition
• “Games provide safe ways to experience reality”
(Crawford, 1982)
• “A competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance on the
part of two or more persons who play according to a set of rules,
usually for their own amusement or for that of spectators.”
(2016 Dictionary.com, LLC)
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