<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">>Studying games - and especially role-playing games - is plagued with<br>>the traditional "no one but me has ever thought of studying this!"<br>>syndrome. It is very often history-less. In regards to RPGs, most<br>>people do find Fine and Mackay, but after that it is pretty random.<br><br><div>This is true in Brazil too, unfortunatly</div><div><br></div><div>Wagner</div><div><br>--- Em <b>qua, 2/12/09, Jaakko Stenros <i><jaakko.stenros@gmail.com></i></b> escreveu:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>De: Jaakko Stenros <jaakko.stenros@gmail.com><br>Assunto: Re: [Roleplaying] Peer review articles for live roleplaying<br>Para: "Geir-Tore Brenne" <g.t.brenne@sosgeo.uio.no><br>Cc: Roleplaying@digra.org<br>Data: Quarta-feira, 2 de Dezembro de 2009, 20:00<br><br><div
class="plainMail">> What are the "other circles" that you mention? Do you mean the<br>> classical literature on play, or the knutepunkt-books?<br>> I ask because i dont want to make similar mistakes.<br>> - It would be interesting to make a kind of bibliography, which one<br>> could use when writing about topics connected to larp.<br><br>Studying games - and especially role-playing games - is plagued with<br>the traditional "no one but me has ever thought of studying this!"<br>syndrome. It is very often history-less. In regards to RPGs, most<br>people do find Fine and Mackay, but after that it is pretty random.<br><br>> While the "hobby"-publications are good, there are significant<br>> differences in them and scientific journal article and conference<br>> contributions. It has to do with how the latter must be shaped to take<br>> part in a debate that goes on in the field where it is written.<br><br>That is true. However, at
this point in time, anyone who completely<br>ignores the Nordic expert tradition is not believable in my eyes. Yes,<br>it is very uneven and more design-oriented than academic, but outside<br>the literature on role-play in social psychology, it is the single<br>largest contribution to the field.<br><br>> I have thought about the idea if it would have been possible to make a<br>> session during knutepunkt which was more research oriented, in other<br>> words, where those who works with larp in a research could meet,<br>> present, read and discuss each others papers in the style of academic<br>> conference. It might have made most sense to do something like this<br>> right before or after the convention itself, because i think this<br>> should be more academic than what take place at knutepunkt. What do<br>> you think of such an idea?<br><br>If we can find someone who is willing to organize it, I think making<br>it happen is quite
easy. There is a meeting on Knutpunkt 2010 on<br>Sunday. If someone volunteers I can try to push for such a day?<br><br>Jaakko<br>_______________________________________________<br>Roleplaying mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Roleplaying@digra.org" href="/mc/compose?to=Roleplaying@digra.org">Roleplaying@digra.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.digra.org/mailman/listinfo/roleplaying" target="_blank">http://mail.digra.org/mailman/listinfo/roleplaying</a><br></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></table><br>
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