[Itech] Fwd: [gls] Reminder: DiGRA 2013 CfP!

[Seann Dikkers]

Great conference, and better people, for any doing gaming media research or
tech for learning.



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From: Sean Duncan <secdunc at indiana.edu>
Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:54 AM
Subject: [gls] Reminder: DiGRA 2013 CfP!
To: GLS <gls at lists.wisc.edu>


 Hi all,

Just a quick note that the Digital Games Research Association is meeting in
Atlanta, Georgia this year (first time in the US!). The deadline for
abstracts is about a week away (January 21st), and I'd like to encourage
you to submit a proposal.

This year's theme is "DeFragging Game Studies" and the conference is
co-chaired by Celia Pearce, John Sharp, and Helen Kennedy. It's co-located
with the Women in Games International/Feminists in Games conference, Art
History of Games conference, and also Dragon*Con, which should provide some
interesting and fun fan connections to the conference.

I'd also like to put in a separate plug for the Workshops & Panels track --
Colleen Macklin and I are co-chairs of the Workshops and Panels track this
year, and we encourage GLS community members to submit. I'd personally love
to see perspectives from the education and the learning sciences make even
deeper inroads into the DiGRA community, and hope you'll consider
submitting.

Best,

--sean

….

http://dm.lmc.gatech.edu/digra2013/

The Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) announces the Call for
Participation for DiGRA 2013, to be hosted by Georgia Institute of
Technology at the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta Georgia. DiGRA 2013
will bring together a diverse international community of interdisciplinary
researchers engaged in cutting edge research in the field of game studies.

*Theme: DeFragging Game Studies*

This year's proposed theme is a playful linguistic remix of the terms
"frag" and "defrag." Defragging is the computer term for reducing file
fragmentation. Fragging, derived from the military term for killing a
superior officer of one's own unit, has become video game parlance for the
temporary killing of another player.

In the early game studies community, a good deal of fragging (in all three
senses) took place between various camps, schools of thought and
disciplines. This included discussions as to whether or not game studies
should split into more discipline-centered communities; however, the
overall trend has been to continue to grow our field as an
"interdiscipline" that includes humanities, social sciences and psychology,
computer science, design studies, and fine arts.Borrowing from the computer
engineering term, the theme for DiGRA 2013 highlights this process of
defragmenting, which both embraces and better articulates our diverse
methods and perspectives while allowing the game studies research community
to remain a coherent and unified whole.

DiGRA 2013 will take place immediately proceeding Dragon*Con, America's
largest multigenre fan convention.

For more information, visit: http://www.dragoncon.org/

For more information, visit: http://dm.lmc.gatech.edu/digra2013/ or email
digra2013 at digra.org

-- 
Sean C. Duncan
   Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences Program
   Dept of Counseling and Educational Psychology
   Indiana University / secdunc at indiana.edu / se4n.org




-- 

Seann M. Dikkers, PhD

Assistant Professor, Educational Studies

Ohio University


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