Usuários e jogos eletrônicos: um estudo sobre trocas e circulação de informações em contextos lúdicos

Abstract

It’s a user study analyzing the information circulation in videogames and how it perpetuates in the daily life of the user. Is analyzed the informacional practice, showing the user as a information's mediator e how it is acquired inside the game, in that way the user can make the mediation that contributes with his routine. The research is exploratore, descriptive with a qualitative approach, following the theoretical framework to elaborate the questionnaire whose goals was analyse how the users work with the informations acquired inside the games e how it affects or not them with their lives. A online questionare was made with Universidade Federal do Ceará studants, being made a user’s study of the universitary public reaching results about how games can be alies in the informational process and how the users become mediators through the informations passed in the game. Research concludes that information exchange within games makes users the mediators of information, and the information obtained and filtered within the games assist in activities as work social life.