Rethinking Digital Games in a Critical and Participatory Perspectives. A Brief Reflection

• Authors: Patrícia da Silva Leite , Deborah Andrade Torquato Schimidt
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Digital games are social objects created based on our culture and society and at the same time they contribute to shaping our world. Through a critical perspective of digital games and technology, it is possible to discuss the unfolding of these artefacts in our society and also understand their relevance beyond an instrumental view. In this paper, we present a brief reflection based on two researches developed by the authors: the first, regarding the link between digital games and people with disabilities; and the second, about contributions of digital games to a critical education. Our goal with this work is to highlight the emancipatory and participatory potential present in the critical vision of digital games.

Keywords

EN

digital games; Critical Theory; disability; people with disabilities; education; Freire; Habermas

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Ethics in Progress
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 112-117

Dates

published

2019-10-10

Contributors

author

Patrícia da Silva Leite

• Federal University of Technology, Paraná

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4934-3584

author

Deborah Andrade Torquato Schimidt

• University of Montreal

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3822-9831

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/eip.2019.2.10