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Games Summit 2014 | 03 October 2014
We would like to inform you about Games Summit 2014, which is right around the corner! Games Summit 2014 will bring together professionals and help build a solid future for the Flemish gaming industry by looking at international success stories.
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DiGRA Flanders meeting (October 22, 2014)
We are pleased to announce the next DiGRA Flanders meeting at VRT Research & Innovation in the famous Marconi Studio.
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Interested in Swedish DiGRA Chapter?
Game researchers working in Sweden interested in forming a national DiGRA chapter (Swedish DiGRA) are invited to a meeting in Gothenburg on the 5th of November to discuss a potential application. We will discuss issues such as the state of game research in Sweden and if a national chapter would serve a purpose, the relation…
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DiGRA 2014 Elections: Candidates
Below the jump is the information regarding the candidates for open positions on the DiGRA board for 2014-2015. Elections will be held at the AGM at this year’s DiGRA conference and via online ballot afterwards for those unable to attend.
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LARP Event Sunday afternoon DiGRA 2014 (sign up now!)
Margaret Simkins has agreed to run Geraldine’s Birthday Party, a beginner-friendly theater-style live action role playing game set in 1965 Upstate New York. The game will be at Snowbird on Sunday afternoon. Exact time and room are yet to be determined, but it should start around noon with game beginning around 1:00pm (Mountain Time).
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Teaching Game Studies: DiGRA Edition
This half-day workshop is a follow-up to the one held at the Foundations of Digital Games conference in April 2014.
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Call for Candidates for DiGRA Board 2014
This year we are having regular elections for multiple positions on the DiGRA Board, excepting those elected last year. According to the Bylaws, individuals can only serve in a position for four years, after which elections must be held for replacements. However, Individuals timing out of one position can serve in another position on the…
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DiGRA’s General Meeting @ DiGRA ’14
This is notice that DiGRA will have its Association General Meeting on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 during the DiGRA conference in Snowbird, Utah. All are welcome to attend. Our agenda is listed below.
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Do you need permission to include screenshots in your scholarly work?
DiGRA has an answer.
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Registration now open for the DiGRA Australia Symposium
Registration is now open again for the June 17th DiGRA Australia Symposium. Please note we have changed location to a larger venue. http://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-digra-australia-symposium-tickets-11500942629 All details on the eventbrite or on our website, www.digraa.org. Registration is free.
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CfP: Embarrassing Interactions: Unpacking the Relations of Games, Play, and Embarrassment (workshop @ DiGRA2014)
How does embarrassment facilitate or impede gameplay enjoyment? When is play embarrassing? Does the “magic circle” of play shield us from embarrassment, and if so, how and when – and what are its limits? Why do gamer culture and certain game genres (still) carry embarrassment-inducing stigma? What can studying games and play tell us about…
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Report from Inaugural Chinese DiGRA Event
The Digital Game Research Association now has a Chinese branch. A couple of weeks ago the inaugural event of Chinese DiGRA took place at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. This event – the ‘(Chinese) Game Studies Conference’ – attracted scholars with an interest in developing game research on Chinese games and gaming cultures from…
