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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…
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Introducing the DiGRA UK chapter and events programme.
We are delighted to announce the UK Chapter of DiGRA will be launching on 17th June at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of West England. The Chapter covers all of the UK, and we have a series of events planned already after two successful preliminary events earlier this year at the London Knowledge Lab, IoE…
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CfP: RPG Summit at DiGRA 2014
In conjunction with DiGRA 2014, we will be offering a summit for the discussion of all things role playing. The RPG summit’s call for papers is separate from that of the main conference, and has later deadlines. You still have time to submit!
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Register for DiGRA 2014!
DiGRA 2014 will be held from August 3 – 6, 2014 at Snowbird Utah. Registration includes participation in workshops and other events such as the Blank Arcade, Well Played Summit, and a top of the mountain tram lunch.
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CfP: Well-Played Summit @ DiGRA 2014
We are pleased to announce the first Well-Played Summit, a co-located event with DiGRA 2014, which will be at the Snowbird Summer Resort in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, meeting this August 3-6, 2014. In this Well-Played Summit, we will be focusing on close readings and explorations of exceptional play created by a single game.…
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ToDIGRA Vol 1. no 2 – Special issue from Nordic DIGRA now available
On behalf of the editorial board of ToDIGRA, we are proud to announce that the second issue of the ToDIGRA journal now is out. The special issue has been edited by Raine Koskimaa, Frans Mäyrä, Jaakko Suominen and contains selected articles from the Nordic DIGRA conference in 2012, rewritten and extended for this special issue.
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DiGRA Students present Ludodemia
Ludodemia is a database for game studies research organized by topic. This database was originally created by the Wellcome Trust as a resource for finding important articles related to particular categories within game studies. However, this resource was hidden in a corner of the Internet that was nearly impossible to find and the organization of the information…
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CfP: Nordic DiGRA 2014 (May 29-30, Upsalla Sweden)
Games are becoming more and more pervasive in our everyday life. Gamification and game-based learning are research topics that are blooming. Games are also used in electioneering. We invite submission for full papers and for workshops. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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CfP: 2014 DiGRA Australia Symposium – What is Game Studies in Australia?
Abstract Submission Deadline – April 15 Notification of Acceptance – May 1 Symposium Date – June 17 === Details === As has been the case for most game studies scholars, Australian academic work on games and play has been conducted within a wide variety of disciplines and from an even broader number of conceptual and…
