This is video game play: video games, authority and metacommunication
Gregory Bateson claims that all play acts should be primarily understood as meta-communicative. In other words, playing a game implies being able to transmit and receive the meta-message ‘this is play’, which establishes a psychological frame among the players. I will propose a radical reading of B...
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| Language: | por |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.27(2015).2088 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:journals.uminho.pt:article/1114 |