Learning the Language of Justice Through Play
| Autor: | Heather Crandall, Carolyn Cunningham |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Human rights
media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Social change social change ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING Empathy prosocial games General Medicine human rights Social issues Economic Justice Entertainment Deportation lcsh:Political science (General) lcsh:H1-99 Sociology lcsh:Social sciences (General) lcsh:JA1-92 Social psychology educational strategies media_common Prosocial Games Social Change Educational Strategies Human Rights |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hate Studies; Vol 15, No 1 (2019); 183-202 Journal of Hate Studies, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 183-202 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2169-7442 1540-2126 |
| Popis: | Video games are often seen as a medium for entertainment. However, there is an emerging genre of video games that are designed to raise awareness about important social issues like poverty, immigration, and war. These games use persuasive strategies for engaging communities in conversations about human rights issues. This paper provides analyses of the educational strategies of twenty-one human rights video games on the Games For Change website. Our analysis reveals that the ways these games increase cognition, increase empathy and teach affective responses, as well as teach players how to participate in social change processes, serve to educate for behavioral change. Through this medium, players are immersed in simulations which give them a language to not only understand the dynamics at play in issues such as deportation, but also offers players insight into how to change these dynamics and why it is important. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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