In cooperation with Amsterdam University Press<\/a> and the Utrecht Center for Game Research<\/a><\/p>\n Program<\/strong><\/p>\n 17:00 Welcome \u2013 Michiel de Lange (Utrecht University \u2013 moderator)<\/p>\n 17:05 Intro Sybille Lammes (Leiden University)<\/p>\n 17:20 Jeroen\u00a0Jansz (Erasmus University Rotterdam)<\/p>\n 17:35 Joost Raessens (Utrecht University)<\/p>\n 17:50 Ingrid Hoofd (Utrecht University)<\/p>\n 18:05 panel discussion & Q&A<\/p>\n 18:30 Close + drinks<\/p>\n <\/p>\n How can digital games encourage and develop civic engagement? Can players be turned into ecological citizens? And could games revise oppressive social structures? This playful evening, visitors will be treated to an overview of the potential and limitations of citizen engagement in the digital age.<\/p>\n With the emergence of digital and mobile technologies, our conceptions and hopes of what citizen participation entails have changed profoundly. It seems as though interactive, networked, and cheap technologies have greatly democratized how literacies, knowledge, and power structures are generated and perceived in everyday life and that they have increased\u2014and have further potential to increase\u2014the degree of civic engagement. From playing, modifying, and designing games and interactive documentaries, and using playful tools and games for the production of alternative knowledges, to becoming protest-cartographers or pollution measurers, citizens appear to engage with, alter, and probe media technologies to a far greater extent than ever before. At the same time, we should be critical of what exactly these apparently enabling technologies do, and question what the drawbacks and the possibilities of digital media are for civic engagement.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/playful_citizen-469x700.png\")
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