---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:40 PM Subject: When work becomes play - "gamification" - manipulation or empowerment ? To: Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> This pdf was shared with me ( Thanks to L. ) around the topic of "gamification" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification * * * <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification>" As of September, 2010, gamification was used by marketers and website product managers as a tool for customer engagement <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_engagement> " * It relates to a recent article on the scientific american, which is unfortunately closed behind paid access, "When Work becomes Play" http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927940.300-game-on-when-work-becomes... http://www.google.be/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-... -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI