2. Intro quote or short video...
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3. This thesis presents the hypothesis that the aspirational gaming
term, “Leveling Up”, meaning to acquire additional power and
responsibility through the successful completion of extreme quests,
may be applied to reimagining civic engagement.
Leveling up suggests heroic, almost superhuman challenges, as an
appropriate description of the efforts needed to decipher so-called
wicked problems.
Wicked problems are such that they cannot be resolved with a
traditional analytical approach. Existing in a dynamic social
context, with no given solutions, every effort to solve a wicked
problem creates new complexity.
In contrast to current methods to solve such problems, which have
reached a paralysis in institutionalized effectiveness, this thesis
will show the capability of an intrinsically incentivised system
to create civic value from crowdsourced groups dedicated to
improving society as their explicit goal.
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5. Did someone
say wicked?
*need more hq pic
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6. Explain wicked probs more and
frame how to think about them.
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7. HOW CAN WE BEGIN TO
SOLVE SUCH PROBLEMS?
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8. I THINK IT WILL LOOK
SOMETHING LIKE THIS
*need more hq pic
SCREENSHOT FROM A WORLD OF WARCRAFT BATTLE
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9. Expand on WoW and how it
relates to everything.
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11. Colleen Lachowicz, Democratic candidate for
Maine State Senate, and Level 85 Orc.
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12. Expand on leveling/gaining a level.
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13. Expand on relation of leveling
and civic engagement.
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14. What makes a good game?
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15. Participatory Budgeting
Assembly Research.
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