[DiGRA UK] Laclau/Foucault-related game studies

[Paolo Ruffino]

Dear Tom, that sounds totally like my kind of work.
I do not have much published yet, a part from a couple of papers where
I briefly discuss my methodology. I would love to chat with you about
these two authors. I approach independent games, game hacking and
gamification, in my PhD, through Foucault/Laclau, combining them with
a poststructuralist perspective. Hope to hear from you!


On 6 August 2014 18:56, Diane Carr <D.Carr at ioe.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello Tom,
> I do.
> http://tinyurl.com/game-dis-ability
> Not for studies of the games industry though. Have you looked at Aphra Kerr's work?
> Cheers,
> Diane
>
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> Greetings DiGRA UK.
>
> I'm a MA graduate currently in the South West area (Chippenham, not far from Bristol) hoping to start up in games industry research. My studies (other than Games Design, which I did at Newport) have primarily been Foucauldian and Laclaudian discursive analysis and critical media/cultural studies surrounding it (such as Hall's encoding/decoding model) and ways these models and connected research may apply to games and the industry locally and internationally.
>
> I was curious if any past or current research that approaches games through Foucault/Laclau discourse that people might recommend? I don't recall much if any mention of games during my studies and have yet to find any such work, but given how prominent it seems in media studies I would be surprised if a games researcher somewhere has not approached it before i do.
>
> Many thanks everyone, and best of luck with your research.
>
> Tom
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