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Games for Social Change: Review of the Potential for Multi Player Online Gaming to Facilitate the Emergence and Growth of Progressive Movements for Social Change within Youth and Community Work
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Keating, Paul – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2016
Building on the use of the internet and social media as sites for activism, this paper highlights the emergence of political activism and collective protest in the online gaming environment. Referencing social movement theory and the rapidly evolving capacity of multiplayer online games to facilitate the development of strong group identities and…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Computer Games, Social Change, Activism
Doing Is Learning: Teaching Development Studies by the Next Best Experience.
Chapman, G. P. – Simulation/Games for Learning, 1992
Discusses three simulation games focusing on social and economic interaction that can be used to enhance understanding and sensitivity in development studies training: the Green Revolution Game (rural development in India), Exaction (a whole national society game commissioned by the World Bank), and Africulture (a new game about labor-scarce…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Community Development, Developing Nations, Economic Development
Bintang Anda: A Game Process for Community Development. Technical Note No. 18.
Marzuki, Saleh; Dilts, Russ – 1982
Bintang Anda (Your Star) is not a single game, but is rather a format for a family of simulation games which was developed in 1975 when the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture began a search for innovations in educational technology that could be applied to problems of rural development. Indonesia's development goals emphasize improvement…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Decision Making Skills, Developing Nations