Deliberative Play

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3755941
AutoresRobert T Craig (0000-0001-7223-8286, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume67
Fascículo8
Páginas951-962
Data de publicação2023-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027642221093589
OpenAlexW4280625269
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas12

This article introduces a special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist in which scholars of public deliberation address the theme of "Deliberative Play" from different conceptual and empirical approaches. Here I introduce the concept of deliberative play against a background of philosophical accounts of deliberative action, the theory of metacommunication, and trends in the study of public deliberation that are endeavoring to reduce the gap between normative theories and the empirical realities of deliberative democratic practice. Articles in the special issue address several aspects of deliberative play: how storytelling activities accomplish deliberative play in online forums (Black, Wolfe, and Han); how facilitators can cue and maintain the deliberative play frame during facilitated deliberative discussions (Sprain); how playful exchanges are enabled by the structure of New England town meetings and what they accomplish (Townsend and Milburn); how alternative scenarios for action presented with pros and cons by expert consultants influence deliberative play in online discussions in Poland (Przybylska, Bucholc, and Mazur); and how online discussion interfaces would benefit from applying principles of game design (Gastil). The concluding section reflects on the results of these studies and their implications for further investigations of deliberative play

Action (physics) · Deliberation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Epistemology · Normative · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Knowledge Management and Sharing · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Social Media and Politics