Penser les phénomènes de ludicisation à partir de Jacques Henriot

Abstract

Many neologisms are formed nowadays to think the contagion of play by different spheres of activity (gamification, ludification). Likewise, contemporary theorists (such as Malaby) insist on the necessity to consider play as a changing process, questioning the essentialist conceptions of playful phenomena. Jacques Henriot is a precursor of these new approaches, but his work also allows to transcend divisions created by these multiple theories that focus on the way a situation is or is not play. These different themes being at the center of our own research interests, we will show how the work of Jacques Henriot helped us to elaborate a series of notions (playability, playful ethos, ludicisation), allowing to think the mutations of the idea of play.

Keywords

• ludicisation
• playability
• playful ethos
• video game
• play agencies