[Roleplaying] Peer review articles for live roleplaying

[Geir-Tore Brenne]

I dont think that this is so useful, for two reasons.

First, if you dont speak the language the article is written in, I
cant believe it is much use to have the abstract. The thing is that
the discussions on a national level would be about topics that may be
unknown to the international audience. Hence I guess it is difficult
to make sense of unless you know the context of the debate - which
"discourse", so to say, that the article is written in. What we would
need would be things that are translated but also written in a way to
be understandable for an international audience that does not know the
local debates. But then we are kind of talking entirely new articles
in english.

Second, is the lack of good descriptive accounts of live roleplayng in
the different language communities, descriptive accounts that others
can understand. LARP is a practice that differs greatly from place to
place. If the debaters are not aware of the differences, the
discussants can soon begin to agree and disargee on things based on
false assumptions on how each others play. Larp players tend to take
for granted that "their" brand of play is roughly similar to others,
not knowing the great variety that is possible. How can I make sense
of a polish theoretical article without any really good description of
how they play? Hence another thing that is dearly needed are good
descriptive accounts. Thats a starting point, I think. But good
descriptive accounts are actually really hard to make. - It could
actually have been an interesting publication, to make a comparative
analysis of many different larp traditions, and try to specify the
excact aspects that they are similar or different.

Regards
Geir

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Sebastian Deterding
<sebastian.deterding at gmx.de> wrote:
> As regards the list of publications, if anyone starts setting it up,
> I'll be happy to supply the German research in the field. Maybe we could
> create something like "language ambassadors" who at least translate the
> titles & micro abstracts into English?




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