[Dutch-chapter] FW: [ecrea] CFP - The social side of gaming: International Conference on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming

[Jan Van Looy]

Hi all,

A very interesting conference on the social side of gaming. The plan is for
this to become an ECREA gaming working group so anyone interested in playing
a role in that, be there!

Best regards,

Jan


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Subject: 

[ecrea] CFP - The social side of gaming: International Conference on the
Social Aspects of Digital Gaming


Date: 

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:17:39 +0100


From: 

Carpentier Nico  <mailto:nico.carpentier at vub.ac.be>
<nico.carpentier at vub.ac.be>


To: 

ecrea at listserv.vub.ac.be

 

>CALL FOR PAPERS
> 
> 
>The social side of gaming: International 
>Conference on the Social Aspects of Digital Gaming
> 
> 
>Thursday 21 July to Saturday 23 July 2011
> 
>University Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
> 
> 
>Topic
> 
>In the past decade, digital games have become a 
>widely accepted form of media entertainment, 
>even outside the traditional ‘core gamer’ 
>segment. In tandem with this shift into the 
>mainstream media market, we have seen an 
>increasing interest in ‘social’ multiplayer 
>gaming activities, from both the audience and the gaming industry.
> 
>The development of social games is of great 
>academic interest. Wide-ranging studies have 
>been initiated to investigate the sociality of 
>virtual worlds, massively multiplayer role 
>playing games (MMORPGs), multiplayer shooters, 
>e-sports, and cooperation in party-oriented 
>console gaming, yet games research remains a 
>relatively new field. Despite explosive growth 
>in the field over the past decade, many aspects 
>of social gaming still remain largely unexplored.
> 
>This international conference, titled The Social 
>Side of Gaming and hosted by the University 
>Hohenheim (Germany), will take a closer look at 
>the various forms of human interaction in 
>digital games. The aim of the conference is to 
>bring together researchers from a variety of 
>disciplines interested in social interaction in 
>games, including (but not limited to) the fields 
>of communication research, media studies, 
>sociology, psychology, education studies, and economics.
> 
>Papers and presentations will address one or 
>more of the following conference topics:
> 
>·       Theoretical and empirical approaches to 
>social interaction in digital games
> 
>·       Forms of communication in digital games
> 
>·       Interaction among co-located gamers
> 
>·       Game communities and cultures, social 
>interaction in and around games (e.g., clans and online discussions)
> 
>·       Avatars, identification, and self-representation in virtualworlds
> 
>·       Development of interaction rules and 
>social norms, including questions of ethics, 
>morality, economy & justice in digital games
> 
>·       Entertainment through social interaction
> 
>·       Design and implementation of social interaction
> 
>·       Methodology of research on social interaction in games
> 
>·       Violent interactions, griefing, and sexual harassment in
digitalgames
> 
>·       Excessive use and forms of addiction 
>related to social aspects of gaming
> 
> 
>Abstracts
> 
>An extended abstract of no more than 3 pages in 
>length (7500 characters in total) should be 
>prepared for blind review as a Word file (.doc 
>or .docx). When submitting the abstract, please 
>include a separate cover page including the following contact details:
> 
>·       paper title
> 
>·       name
> 
>·       department/organization
> 
>·       postal address
> 
>·       e-mail address
> 
>The abstract should provide a clear outline of 
>the status of the proposed work (for empirical 
>studies: status of data collection and analysis) 
>and confirm that the research will be ready for 
>presentation at the conference. By sending an 
>abstract, the author(s) agrees to personally 
>present the research at the conference.
> 
>The abstract should be sent to the organizing 
>committee by email 
>(gamescon2011 at uni-hohenheim.de) before 28 
>February 2011. The double-blind review process 
>will take place during March, with the results 
>returned on 31 March 2011. Further information 
>on the conference program, including keynote 
>speakers, will soon be available on the conference Website at
> 
>sofoga.uni-hohenheim.de/conf2011
> 
> 
>Organization
> 
>·       The ERC (European Research Council) 
>project group The Social Fabric of Virtual Life
> 
>·       The Sociology of Media Communication 
>section of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
> 
> 
>Additional Information
> 
>The conference language is English. The 
>conference proceedings will be published after 
>the conference. Papers selected for the 
>proceedings volume should be prepared for a book 
>publication until October 2011.
 
 
 
 
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