Fostering Agentic Play Between Technology and Democracy

ABSTRACT: The Knowledge Technologies for Democracy (KT4D) project seeks to produce new mechanisms to support the protection of human agency in the context of tensions between democracy and emerging technologies. Addressing this challenge from the perspectives of education, regulation and innovation, the project has chosen to deliver a number of its interventions through the paradigm of serious games. The place of agency in gaming is contested, however, leading the project to weave multiple mechanisms to foster agency as a collective process across its approaches to critical digital literacy, narrative and co-creation.