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Beyond Play: A New Approach to Games

Malaby, Thomas M.·2007·Games and Culture
DOI 10.1177/1555412007299434
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Games have intruded into popular, academic, and policy-maker awareness to an unprecedented level, and this creates new opportunities for advancing our understanding of the relationship of games to society. The author offers a new approach to games that stresses them as characterized by process. Games, the author argues, are domains of contrived contingency, capable of generating emergent practices and interpretations, and are intimately connected with everyday life to a degree heretofore poorly understood. This approach is both consistent with a range of existing social theory and avoids many of the limitations that have characterized much games scholarship to date, in particular its tendency toward unsustainable formalism and exceptionalism. Rather than seeing gaming as a subset of play, and therefore as an activity that is inherently separable, safe, and pleasurable, the author offers a pragmatic rethinking of games as social artifacts in their own right that are always in the process of becoming. This view both better accords with the experience of games by participants cross-culturally and bears the weight of the new questions being asked about games and about society.

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Authors
Malaby, T. M.
Affiliations
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (US)
Corresponding author
Malaby, Thomas M.
ORCID
Malaby, Thomas M.
Venue
Games and Culture
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2007-04
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
95-113
ISSN
  • 1555-4120 (ISSN-L)
  • 1555-4139
DOI
10.1177/1555412007299434
OpenAlex
W2116669853
Cited by
434
References
55
Citations by year
2026: 27 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 22 · 2021: 22 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 27 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 23 · 2016: 23 · 2015: 24 · 2014: 22 · 2013: 22 · 2012: 17
FWCI
61.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Games and Culture (publishedVersion)
Funders
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Digital Games and Media
  • Social Sciences › Education › Physical education and sports games research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Games and Gamification
Keywords
games, play, emergent practices, everyday life, games and society, social theory, pragmatism

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