[Roleplaying] Peer review articles for live roleplaying

[J. Tuomas Harviainen]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Geir-Tore Brenne wrote:

> What are the "other circles" that you mention? Do you mean the classical 
> literature on play, or the knutepunkt-books?

Both. The cold, harsh fact is that despite any academic prejudices and 
expectations, some of the greates papers, especially as larp is 
concerned, have been published in the Knutepunkt books. (Just think of 
Fatland 2005b, for instance.) And this is not, as you claim, reflected 
in the discourse: As one can google up, the research section of 
Playground Worlds (2008) is listen in some places as a refereed 
publication, in others not.

> convention itself, because i think this should be more academic than what 
> take place at knutepunkt. What do you think of such an idea?

I like that idea, but I'd rather see more of the general role-playing 
research type, like Playing Roles at Tampere in 2006. I think many of us 
learned more about the field there than we would have at any 
form-specific event.

 	-Jiituomas