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- Title
Taking Games Seriously.
- Authors
Light, Jennifer
- Abstract
In this article, the author explores the intellectual influences of systems thinking during the early decades of the Cold War. The author argues that to understand the full extent of the dominance of systems thinking during the cold war era, scholars must attend to the history of games. She offers insight into the ways that individuals and institutions in the fields that made systems thinking central to their technical work simultaneously conceptualized lay knowledge about systems as fundamental to citizenship in a democracy. She cites the story of the Model Cities games, which suggests new directions for the history and historiography of systems analysis and simulation.
- Subjects
SYSTEMS theory; GAMES; COLD War, 1945-1991; CITIZENSHIP; DEMOCRACY; SYSTEM analysis; SIMULATION methods &; models
- Publication
Technology & Culture, 2008, Vol 49, Issue 2, p347
- ISSN
0040-165X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/tech.0.0007