Playful Meaning-Making as Prosocial Fun

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 safeguar...

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Published in:Future internet 2022-10, Vol.14 (10), p.288
Main Authors: Carroll, John M., Gui, Fanlu, Gupta, Srishti, Knearem, Tiffany
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence
Citizens
Climate change
Collaboration
Community
community engagement
Information technology
Infrastructure
Internet
Participation
prosocial fun
Science
Smart cities
smart communities
Social capital
Social factors
Social networks
Social support
Volunteers
Water quality
Water supply
Watersheds
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1999-5903
1999-5903
DOI:10.3390/fi14100288