Mondo Nano Colin Milburn

18
Feb
2019

International Journal of Communication, 2019

< Maxwell Foxman

Book Review of Colin Milburn’s book “Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter”

This book comes as a refreshing response to “gamification” literature, which tends to focus on how games can be extended to solve problems. From

Jane McGonigal’s (2011) Reality is Broken

to Brian Burke’s(2016) Gamify

or Karl M. Kapp’s (2012) The Gamification of Learning and Instruction,

these works rely heavily on game elements, design, and mechanics to explain relationships between play and the larger world.