Just released online – the November issue of Convergence, which is a special issue on mobile gaming, with seven new papers on that topic.
http://con.sagepub.com/content/current
The edition was edited by Chris Chesher (UNSW), Larissa Hjorth (RMIT), Ingrid Richardson (Murdoch) and Jason Wilson (Canberra).
Contents as follows:
Jason Wilson, Chris Chesher, Larissa Hjorth, and Ingrid Richardson – Distractedly engaged: Mobile gaming and convergent mobile media
Larissa Hjorth – Mobile@game cultures: The place of urban mobile gaming and solitaire apps
Christopher Moore – The magic circle and the mobility of play
Christian McCrea – We play in public: The nature and context of portable gaming systems
Alison Gazzard – Location, location, location: Collecting space and place in mobile media
Ingrid Richardson – The hybrid ontology of mobile gaming
Celia Lam – Portable media affected spectatorship
Jason Wilson – Playing with politics: Political fans and Twitter faking in post-broadcast democracy