This short and speculative paper considers some philosophical approaches to understanding, particularly those related to Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Information, and based on the general idea that understanding is a special kind of knowledge. It is a slightly extended and updated version of the paper presented at CoLIS9.

This study looks into the life of a virtual gaming community, CTO Sims – a small slice of a
wider community that engages in what Bruns (2006) has termed produsage, remediating
videogame assets and content from a PC game, The Sims (2000) into custom or user-generated
content – a practice also called ‘modding’. Through a virtual ethnogr…[Read more]