“Playing the Creative Game: Designing Creativity and Epistemology into Playful Platforms from Video Games to YouTube”
Hector Postigo, Temple University
Tuesday, April 1, 1:00-2:30 pm
EV 6.735
All are welcome to attend
Hector Postigo is associate professor of Media Studies and Production at Temple University’s School of Media and Communication in Philadelphia.  Dr. Postigo holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he worked with the Product Design and Innovation Program.  He has held positions …

“The body of a gamer”
Tom Apperley, University of New South Wales, Australia
Friday, March 14, 1:00-2:30pp
EV 11.705
All are welcome to attend

Tom Apperley is an ethnographer that specializes in researching digital games, digital literacies and pedagogies, and social inclusion. He is the co-editor of the open-access peer-reviewed journal, Digital Culture & Education, his open-access print-on-demand book Gaming Rhythms: Play and Counterplay from the Situated to the Global, was published by The Institute of Network Cultures in 2010. …

“On further reflection: From serious games to reflective game design”
Rilla Khaled, University of Malta
Tuesday, March 11, 1:00-2:30pm
EV 6.735
All are welcome to attend
Rilla Khaled is an associate professor at the Institute of Digital Games at the University of Malta and has a PhD in Computer Science from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her research focuses on how to design more effective and meaningful serious and persuasive games, the interactions between games, gamification, and culture, …