LUDIFYING DIGITAL PROTESTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: THEBANGLADESH SCENARIO

While Bangladesh last year was undergoing a radical political overhaul led at the grassroots level, gamers in Bangladesh were not only actively subsuming the unrest into their virtual game worlds, but they were also tying in with networking platforms that are already gamified, creating paratextual layers to the games that add to their textual depth and their reception.Our research studies this phenomenon through digital participant observation.