Beyond Gaming: Potlatch as Framework for Debate

Gaming works as an answer to the question of what debates do. But while we can answer that we play a game (albeit a serious and complex one), we also say something about the players and why we play the game. Gaming became a tool for control – convincing debaters that energies of criticism should be reinvested into the debate community. ................
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