A new EPIC research article, titled “Community, Socialisation, and Empowerment in Cultural Game Jams with Youth Citizens,” co-authored by Kim Holflod, Rikke Toft Nørgård, and Eva Eriksson, has been published in the Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Games Based Learning. This paper explores Cultural Game Jams as a potential format for enabling and developing youths’ empowered participation, communality, and cultural socialisation by analysing the first Cultural Game Jam (2024). Framed by a Design-Based Research methodology and guided by experimental and short-term ethnography and design experiments, the analyses draw from qualitative empirical material, e.g., interviews, participatory observations, field notes, and the Cultural Game Jam participants’ reflective process and design documentation. The analyses illustrate how co-creating games within cultural heritage contexts can develop youth perceptions of community, cultural socialisation processes, and individual/collective empowerment. Furthermore, the paper offers insights into the co-creation of games as new expressions of cultural heritage through epistemic collaboration and cultural participation in game jams while discussing possibilities for enabling new experiences of empowered participation, social learning, and community among youth citizens.
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How to cite: Holflod, K., Nørgård, R. T., & Eriksson, E. (2024) Community, Socialisation, and Empowerment in Cultural Game Jams with Youth Citizens. In Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Games Based Learning, 18 (1), 395-402. https://doi.org/10.34190/ecgbl.18.1.2812
