INTRODUCTION: Serious games is an effort to combine the engagement and motivation from with some sort of utility beyond mere entertainment. OBJECTIVES: The objective this paper revisit analyse six projects explore design space for serious derive guidelin

SGs are (digital) games used for purposes other than mere entertainment using leaning-by-doing paradigm. Current internet technologies increase the capabilities of Web-Based Serious Games making them collaborative e-learning instruments. This paper presents LawVille, a Web-Based Collaborative Serious Game aimed at teaching citizenship and the Italian Constitution to secondary school students.

A game or is something that can be played by having rules so there a winning and losing result, usually the context not serious for self-entertainment. Learning to recognize letters one of most important milestones in child's development because it first step learning read write. The was made using MIT App Inventor this used on cellphones smartphones, with aim educational only mere entertainmen...

This article presents a mapping of the discursive strategies present in De volta para o meu aconchego, from Rede Record de Televisão, emphasizing narratives built in/by painting, about migratory processes Northeasterners that, for most part, are based on notions stigmatizing and stereotyped region, subjects their ways life. The is characterized as qualitative nature descriptive-exploratory type...

Contesting a tradition deeply ingrained in media studies, which conceives of news and current-affairs programming not only as a reliable, but also a sufficient platform for a mediated enhancement of the democratic ideal of plurality (in a representational realm which many members of society find devoid of enjoyment and consequently ignore), this paper seeks to explore how ‘mass’ entertainment t...

Abstract I argue that, alongside the already well-established prohibition against treating persons as mere means, Kant’s Formula of Humanity requires a things. The former captures ethical violations due to someone’s (perceived) instrumental value, e.g. exploitation, latter cases in which mistreat others because they have no value me. These are am indifferent and complacent towards need; forms m...

Die Wannseekonferenz (1984) portrays the Wannsee Conference of 20 January 1942, where Reinhard Heydrich chaired a meeting Germany’s ministers to co-ordinate “Final Solution.” Produced by public television network Bayerische Rundfunk (BR), is neither mere entertainment nor dry, unsubtle didactic film. Instead, it history in compelling and disturbing manner. The West German press, howeve...