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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Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade (CECS)
2015-06-01
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| Series: | Comunicação e Sociedade |
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| Online Access: | https://revistacomsoc.pt/article/view/1114 |