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Understanding Games as Participation: an analytical model
Publication . Vasconcellos, Marcelo Simão de; Carvalho, Flávia Garcia de; Araujo, Inesita Soares de
Public health communication in Brazil has difficulties in reaching different groups of the population, as well as fostering their participation for building better health policies. Digital games could help in this regard, but there is a need of detailed models that account for social and participatory aspects of games and game playing. In order to provide such model, this study combined theoretical concepts from Game Studies, namely, the concept of games as participation and the Gaming Dispositif-model, with the Model of Communication as a Symbolic Market, from Latin American Communication Studies, creating a game model describing the socially inscribed relations among player, game and other players, based on participation. This article explains the mentioned concepts and the analytical model in detail, concluding with remarks on its possible uses.
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