Category: Master’s Thesis

As I mentioned before, escape games contain some similarities with live-action role-playing games. Working on a smaller scale, with less participant buy in, escape rooms offer the chance for participants to engage participants in a story. Role playing games involved imaginative play, where players are asked to take on a certain character (typically of their choice) and participate in a narrative. Escape games offer a central story, typically giving players a choice in how much they want to perform, where role-playing makes minor difference to the overall game. ..

Simply put, take a bunch of people, put them in a room, and don’t let them out unless they solve some puzzles. Now, let's use that format to make an effective educational and research gathering experience!

Can we make games function as subversive teaching tools? What does that even mean? How can we think about educational processes in relation to games?

The idea of educational games, is not new, but their formalization within education is becoming increasingly popular

How do we come up with creative ideas?

Now that we have gotten a handle on what we mean by filter bubbles and echo chambers, we can talk about how they can fit into a game.

After dedicating the previous post to an overview of filter bubbles and concluding that they might not even exist, it’s only fair to spend some time discussing their commonly intertwined term echo chambers

Personalized web pages, search results and news feeds fill most of our computer screens every time we go online. With it comes promoted content that we might enjoy seeing and recommended products we are more likely to purchase. However, what is being left out? If we are having everything personally targeted towards us, is there not some content that isn’t making it to us? What is being filtered out?