Play is the freedom of movement within a more rigid structure. (wiggle room.) Play provides the opportunity for emergent experience and personal expression.
Can play in journalism open a space to create objectivity created by the audience person? What do we do with the risks of misinterpretation?
Play + Journalism » Immersion of audience.
But the game is not intrinsic in the toy; it is a set of player-defined objectives overlaid on the toy. – Greg Costikyan
Ideas
- I was there when.
- Inline commentary, debate, sourcing and review
- Children’s mystery books, choose your own adventure, flip book over, use color filter
- Fan fiction – compose alternative outcome, a departure from any node within the story
elements: source, data, fact, information, knowledge, researcher, subject, outlet, form,
Data toy examples: