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Playframes: How Do We Know We Are Playing?
By
Celia Pearce
Celia Pearce

Celia Pearce is the author of Communities of Play (MIT Press) and IndieCade: A History. Her award-winning game designs include Virtual Adventures and eBee, an electronic quilt game, which won the 2017 award for Most Innovative Board Game at the Boston Festival of Independent Games. She is also a cofounder of IndieCade and Co-Executive Director of the Playable Theatre Project.

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15344.001.0001
ISBN electronic:
9780262381239
Publication date:
2024
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III: Topical Studies

  • Published:
    2024
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A Trip to Dragon Con with Erving Goffman

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“Playing with Fire”: Weddings, Real and Virtual

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Play Money

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“This Is Not a Game”: Alternate Reality, Alternative Facts, and the January 6 Insurrection

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Beyond Bateson’s Monkeys: The Present and Future of Playframes

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