Media Ludology

Philippette, Thibault;Maude Bonenfant
(2022) Playing Culture. El videojuego como objeto cultural — ISBN: [978-84-09-39248-3], p. 131-133, published

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The term “ludology” is often used as a synonym for game studies or “sciences du jeu” in French. According to Jesper Juul (2011), the term was first used by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi in 1982 in an article entitled Does being human matter? On some interpretive problems of comparative ludology (Ibid., p. 16). Although the latter does not give a true definition to the term, he starts from the reference work of Johan Huizinga (1938) and then points out that what is interesting in the game of the human is not so much the characteristics of its conception as the diversity of forms in which it develops, as well as the uses to which it is put (...)
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Philippette, T., & Maude Bonenfant. (2022). Media Ludology. In Vicente J. Pérez Valero y Fran Mateu (ed.), Playing Culture. El videojuego como objeto cultural (Fundacion La Posta, p. p. 131-133). Vicente J. Pérez Valero y Fran Mateu. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/104273