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Play and Playfulness in Lynda Barry’s What It Is

open access: yesEludamos, 2021
This article discusses play and playfulness in Lynda Barry’s autobiographical comics/instructional work What It Is (2008). The term ‘playfulness’ is commonly used in two primary but distinct ways, namely in a phenomenological sense concerning a free ...
Kieron Brown
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The Playful Citizen [PDF]

open access: yes
In the last decade, digital media technologies and developments have given rise to exciting new forms of ludic, or playful, engagements of citizens in cultural and societal issues. From the Occupy movement to playful city-making to the gameful designs of the Obama 2008 and Trump 2016 presidential campaigns, and the rise of citizen science and ...
Glas, R.   +4 more
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Developmental trajectories of children's playfulness in two- to six-year-olds

open access: yesFrontiers in Developmental Psychology
Even though playfulness has been found to be highly relevant to the development and wellbeing of young children, hardly any longitudinal findings are available on stability and changes in children's playfulness.
Corina Wustmann Seiler   +3 more
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Playfulness of Understanding in Wittgenstein's and Gadamer's Views [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2011
Wittgenstein and Gadamer, in some sense, are the last links of the two philosophical effective schools, namely the Analytical and the Continental philosophy; two traditions which seems somehow divergent.
mohammad ra'yat jahromi
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Playful Participation in Social Games [PDF]

open access: yesConjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation, 2017
In this paper we introduce social games as a new terrain for studies in participatory culture. Social games defy easy classification and cannot be appropriately understood from existing research perspectives. Initially, we therefore attempt to define social games by comparing the genre with related game genres, notably serious games and health games ...
Markussen, Thomas, Knutz, Eva
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Relation between parental playfulness and child playfulness: mediating role of parent-child interaction

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
Playfulness plays a pivotal role in fostering individual development across cognitive, emotional, and creative domains. This study aims to investigate parental playfulness and playfulness among 681 Chinese children aged 3–6 years, including 356 boys (52 ...
Yonggang Wei   +4 more
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Introduction: Playfulness across Media

open access: yesEludamos, 2021
This is the introduction to the guest-edited Playfulness across Media issue of Eludamos. The articles collected here seek to demonstrate the productivity of the concept of playfulness across disciplines and the importance of moving beyond the study of ...
Jan-Noël Thon
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Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl   +5 more
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The playful politics of memes

open access: yesInformation, Communication & Society, 2021
This special issue emphasizes memes as an avenue for researching vernacular expressions of the political. Memes disrupt and reimagine politics in humorous ways.
Mortensen, Mette, Neumayer, Christina
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The beauty of experiential learning in anatomy

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Anatomy is a unique subject where one must learn by doing. This is achieved through a variety of methods like dissection, use of prosections, imaging, playful learning (crocheting structures, drawing, and painting organs), through functional movement like yoga or pilates, use of 3D plastic models or by immersing oneself in virtual or augmented
Bipasha Choudhury, Ingrid Gouldsborough
wiley   +1 more source

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