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Playful Meaning-Making as Prosocial Fun

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  • John M. Carroll

    (College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA)

  • Fanlu Gui

    (Vanguard Corporation, Malvern, PA 19496, USA)

  • Srishti Gupta

    (College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA)

  • Tiffany Knearem

    (College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, USA)

Abstract

Smart city infrastructures enable the routine interleaving and integration of diverse activities, including new ways to play, to be playful, and to participate. We discuss three examples: (1) citizen-based water quality monitoring, which combines outdoor exercise and social interaction with safeguarding public water supplies, (2) a digital scavenger hunt, which combines the experiences of a community arts festival with shared reflections about significant community places and events, and (3) public thanking, which encourages people to acknowledge neighbors and local groups that serve and strengthen the community. Each of these interaction possibilities in itself alters lived experience modestly. We argue that lightweight and playful meaning making activities can be prosocial fun , that is to say, they can simultaneously be playful and fun, but also substantive contributions to the coherence and richness of a community.

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  • John M. Carroll & Fanlu Gui & Srishti Gupta & Tiffany Knearem, 2022. "Playful Meaning-Making as Prosocial Fun," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 14(10), pages 1-13, September.
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