If you’re planning to be at the Canadian Game Studies Association Conference on June 4th and 5th in Victoria, please be sure to check out the presentations of TAG luminaries such as Mia Consalvo, William Robinson, Thorsten Busch, Adam Van … Continued
Conferences
Report on Different Games
Different Games, a two-day conference at NYU’s Polytechnic Institute in Brooklyn, New York ranks up there as one of the most inspiring conferences I have yet to attend. It’s the only event I’ve been to that specifically focused on inclusivity … Continued
My time at Nu Montreal
The last three days, Gina Haraszti and I participated as guinea pigs in a pilot project run by Mike Savatovsky called Nu Montreal. This event sought to answer one very strange question: What happens when you put money and 30 … Continued
Call for Papers – Interface 2013:Creative and Critical Approaches in the Digital Humanities
Code as Control
Last week, I found myself in Hamburg locked in a room for two days with 16 strangers. Our mission was to tackle the question “What is code and how does it control us?”. I loathe team building exercises, but … Continued
Mia’s Slides for Internet Research 13.0
So Mia ended up presenting a different paper on Women, Sports and Videogames at the Internet Research 13.0 Conference in England. She presented on a chapter in the book she’s co-editing with some colleagues at MIT- the book is called Sports … Continued
Mia at IR13.0
At the Internet Research 13.0 Conference at the University of Salford in the UK, Mia presented her paper “Social Network Sports Games: Madden & Facebook”during the session “Out of Bounds: Exploring the Boundaries of Sports and Games Session”. To see the abstract … Continued