Games, Power and Democracies
Published on 27. July 2018
114 pages
978-88-85486-57-7 (ISBN)
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This volume discusses the promises and the challenges behind the use of gamification in public governance, both at the national and supranational levels. The first section reviews the landscape of gamification-taking a brief look at its history, providing definitions and examples of its application within the private and public sectors (at the national level), and introducing the readers to a number of problems linked with the use of gamification. The second part shifts the focus from the descriptive to the problematic analysis of gamification in governance. The third section ventures beyond the empirical analysis to address the impact of gamification strategies on participatory democracy in the national and supranational legal spaces.
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Gianluca Sgueo
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Content
- Intro
- Frontespizio
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgment
- Foreword: Towards a Science of Gamification and Its Relationship to Governance and Democracy
- 1. What if Government Was a Game?
- 1. Not your average tetris
- 2. Imagining the future of public power
- 3. Gamification, governance and regulators
- 4. Innovation and tradition
- 5. Technologies and public power
- 6. Increased convergence, higher expectations
- 7. Escaping anachronism
- 8. Conceptual shifts
- 9. Gamification at crossroads no. 1 - nudging
- 10. Gamification at crossroads no. 2 - democratic Innovations
- 11. Gamification at crossroads no. 3 - crowdsourcing
- 12. Gamification at crossroads no. 4 - civic tech
- 13. The era of disbelief
- 14. Regulators in crisis
- 15. The odd paradox
- 16. The participatory makeover
- 17. Fiscal austerity, the costs of (non-)innovating
- 18. Regulatory complexity, obliged to innovate
- 19. The open questions of gamified governance
- 20. The structure of the volume
- 2. A Cursory Investigation into Gamification
- 1. Gamification in political communication
- 2. The politicisation of games
- 3. Gamification and the business sector
- 4. Gamified media
- 5. Games and universities
- 6. Gamified activism
- 7. The gamification of climate change activism
- 3. Games, Rewards and the Exercise of Public Power
- 1. Mayor for a day
- 2. Design is key
- 3. Civic currencies
- 4. Where is the red balloon?
- 5. Be kind to your neighbours
- 6. Participated budgets
- 7. Taxonomy of national gamified governance
- 8. Vultures with GoPros
- 9. Speed camera lotteries and melodic highways
- 10. Incumbent and critical democracies
- 4. Gamification Beyond Borders
- 1. Gamified supranational governance
- 2. Social innovators and young scientists
- 3. Storytellers, innovators, connectors and includers
- 4. Taxonomy of supranational gamified governance
- 5. Pop hunters, maps and ozone molecules
- 6. World wonders and inflation rates
- 7. Mobile phones and grains of rice
- 8. The 'Evokation'
- 9. Regulatory experimentalism
- 10. Blocks and youth workers
- 5. Gamified Publics
- 1. Hard-core participants vs. unqualified masses
- 2. Breaking free from quantitative assessments
- 3. Constitutingthe demos
- 4. Ties and engagements
- 5. Gamified publics no. 1 - policy-entrepreneurs
- 6. Gamified publics No. 2 - citizen-lobbyists
- 7. Capturing the regulators
- 8. Gamified publics no. 3 - citizen-activists
- 9. Gamified publics and governance no. 1 - prosumerism
- 10. Gamified publics and governance no. 2 - collective intelligence
- 11. Gamified publics and governance no. 3 - network theory
- 6. The Dark Side of Gamified Governance
- 1. Dangers of incentives
- 2. The hollowing of the state
- 3. Digitally divided
- 4. Digitally excluded
- 5. Digitally ignorant
- 6. Linguistic barriers
- 7. Policy cycle: front and back ends
- 8. Policy areas
- 9. The new feudal society
- Conclusions: The Only Winning Move Is (Not) to Play
- 1. The puzzle of effectiveness
- 2. Making smart uses of collective intelligence
- 3. Ethics as usual
- 4. Privacy matters
- 5. Embracing failure
