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If anyone would like to try their hand at a Conference, here is an opportunity:
(if you are interested and want your abstract proof read before you submit it, let me know.)
Conference CFP (2015) – Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice
(SWPACA), Judd Ruggill
CFP: 19th Biennial NCA/AFA Summer Conference on Argumentation, Randy
Lake
Call for Paper – Policy & Internet Special Issue on Social Data Science
and the Chinese Web, Min Jiang
The Florida Communication Journal (FCJ), Richard Quianthy
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Judd Ruggill, jruggill@asu.edu
Conference CFP (2015) – Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice
(SWPACA)
Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area 36th
Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference
February 11-14, 2015 Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center
Albuquerque, NM http://www.southwestpca.org
The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area welcomes papers,
panels, and other proposals on games (digital and otherwise) and their
study and development. The Area is also offering a three hour workshop
titled “Empathy Game Design: A Quick Introduction” on the first day of
the conference.
– PROPOSAL SUBMISSION –
Possible topics include (but are in no way limited to):
Advertising (both in-game and out)
Alternative reality games
Archiving and artifactual preservation
Competitive/clan gaming
Design and development
Economic and industrial histories and studies Educational games and
their pedagogies Foreign language games and culture Game art/game-based
art (including game sound) Haptics and interface studies Histories of
games Localization Machinima MOGs, MMOGs, and other forms of
online/networked gaming Performance Pornographic games Religion and
games Representations of race and gender Representations of space and
place The rhetoric of games and game systems Serious games Strategy
games Table-top games and gaming Technological, aesthetic, economic, and
ideological convergence Theories of play Wireless and mobile gaming
For paper proposals: Please submit a 250 word abstract and brief
biographical sketch to the conference event management site:
http://conference2014.southwestpca.org/. Make sure to select the Game
Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice topic area. The submission deadline
is 11/1/2014.
For panel and other proposals: Feel free to query the Area Chair first
(Judd Ruggill, Arizona State University, jruggill@asu.edu). Panel and
other proposals should also be submitted to the conference event
management site and include the information requested for individual
paper proposals (each on a separate submission form), as well as a
100-word statement of the panel’s raison d’etre and any noteworthy
organizational features.
As always, proposals are welcome from any and all scholars (including
graduate students, independent scholars, and tenured, tenure-track, and
emeritus faculty) and practitioners (developers, artists, archivists,
and so forth). Also, unusual formats, technologies, and the like are
encouraged.
– AWARD –
Graduate students accepted to present in this area may apply for the
conference’s monetary Computer Culture and Game Studies Award. The full
paper is due to the judges on 12/15/2014. For details on this award and
the conference’s other awards for graduate students, see
http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/.
– WORKSHOP –
The Area Research Coordinator is pleased to announce this year’s Game
Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice workshop, “Empathy Game Design: A
Quick Introduction.” The workshop will be led by Carly Kocurek (Illinois
Institute of Technology). Participants will explore the emerging genre
of empathy games, which includes titles such as _Depression Quest_,
_Spent_, _That Dragon_, _Cancer_, and _dys4ia_, and work collaboratively
to conceptualize games of their own. No technical knowledge or prior
experience is necessary.
The workshop is limited to 10 participants, and the goal is for
participants to leave with a game concept and list of potential
development tools. The limited number of participants will ensure that
everyone involved will get the time and attention they need. If you
would like to enroll in the workshop, please email a 100-250 word
statement of interest to the Area Research Coordinator (Jennifer
deWinter at jdewinter@wpi.edu) and Carly Kocurek (ckocurek@iit.edu).
Nota bene: There is no charge for the workshop (for registered
conference presenters/attendees).
The submission deadline is 1/15/15.
– COLLABORATION & PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES – The Game Studies, Culture,
Play, and Practice Area is international in scope and emphasizes
diversity, an openness to innovative approaches and presentations, and
the energetic practice of post-conference collaboration and publication.
The Area Research Coordinator would like to note the following
publication opportunities for this year’s participants:
1) The SWPACA’s peer-reviewed journal, _Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary
Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy_, welcomes submissions. Please
visit http://journaldialogue.org for information on the journal and
submission process.
2) As an official affiliate of the SWPACA, _Reconstruction: Studies in
Contemporary Culture_ always welcomes papers, especially from new
scholars and from emerging disciplines. For more information about the
journal, visit http://reconstruction.eserver.org/.
For more information about these opportunities, or to discuss others,
please email the Area Research Coordinator (Jennifer deWinter,
jdewinter@wpi.edu).
Cheers,
Judd Ruggill, Area Chair
Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice jruggill@asu.edu
http://southwestpca.org/
Jennifer deWinter, Research Coordinator
Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice jdewinter@wpi.edu
http://southwestpca.org/