Perspectivas de informação práticas lúdicas: o jogo digital enquanto mediador infocomunicacional

Abstract

In 21st century, digital games reached a whole new level of interaction and immersion. Unlike the early years of this ludic activity, playing requires much more than the intuitive stimuli to beat or finish it in contemporary society. Contextualized and immersed in information flow, it seems to be that digital games are also impregnated y the dynamics of information society. In this sense, the main objective of this research is to analyze digital games as a cultural and socioinformational mediator as well as an information and communication technology and medium not only of informational input but also knowledge. In order to manage this, it is found here some appointments related to the french philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s concepts Simulation and Simulacra to propose digital games as hyper-real manifestations of reality. Also we frame games into the Social Paradigm proposed by Rafael Capurro as a way to study them in Information Science. It reviews information literacy studies to declare it as an essential pre-requisite between users and digital games dynamics. Finally, we present four case studies as evidences of digital games infocommunicational capacities and a synthesis as how users can found in them as mediators for information and knowledge access.