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Title	Playful Meaning-Making As Prosocial Fun
ID_Doc	42234
Authors	Carroll J.M.; Gui F.; Gupta S.; Knearem T.
Year	2022
Published	Future Internet, 14, 10
DOI	http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi14100288
Abstract	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. © 2022 by the authors.
Author Keywords	community engagement; prosocial fun; smart communities

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