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August 10, 2011 03:05 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/lHZGDgc4ZVc/Gamification-mdash-Valid-Term-or-Marketing-Speak
Gamification — Valid Term or Marketing-Speak?
Trepidity writes "Controversy continues over the seemingly unstoppable trend of 'gamification' (something we've discussed previously). The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business held a Gamification Symposium entitled 'For The Win' this week, indicating apparent academic respectability. But in the opening panel debating definitions of 'gamification,' one participant, game scholar Ian Bogost, defined it as 'bulls***.' Elsewhere, Jon Radoff responds that it may not be BS, but is too focused on superficial behaviorism rather than deeper gameplay. For my part, I wonder if by claiming gamification is a completely new thing, rather than just a new word, we're missing out on important past lessons, like the very strange history of Soviet gamification." 
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