<div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:19.2pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">DiGRA
UK 2017 Conference & Meeting</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Salford,
May 5th 2017</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Call for Participation<span></span></span></p><p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">--</span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">The Digital Games Research
Association United Kingdom (DiGRA UK) announces the Call for Participation for
the inaugural conference of the association, to be held 5th<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>May, 2017, at the MediaCityUK in
Salford, hosted by University of Salford. DiGRA UK 2017 will bring together
game scholars and professionals working in<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>the
various area of digital games research from across the United Kingdom.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">The conference welcomes
submissions of papers, abstracts, doctoral consortia and panels on a wide range
of topics associated with the study of digital games, players and game
cultures.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">The conference will also
host an organisational meeting open to DiGRA members, where aims and
self-management of the UK chapter will be discussed among those who are willing
to volunteer. This will include the election of the new board of the national
chapter.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">- For further information,
please contact Dr Paolo Ruffino (<a href="mailto:contact@paoloruffino.com">contact@paoloruffino.com</a>) or Dr Esther
MacCallum-Stewart (<a href="mailto:neveah@gmail.com">neveah@gmail.com</a>).<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">- To participate, please
register at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/edit?eid=31187441477">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/edit?eid=31187441477</a><span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Submission
and selection procedure</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">DiGRA UK welcomes
submissions on a wide range of topics, including:<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Game cultures<br>
Games and other cultural forms<br>
Communication in game worlds<br>
Gender and games<br>
Games as representation<br>
Minority groups and games<br>
Games and childhood<br>
The games industry<br>
Independent games<br>
Games criticism<br>
Gaming in non-leisure settings<br>
Game studies in other domains<br>
Hybrid and non-digital games<br>
History of games<br>
Game design<br>
eSports and spectatorship<br>
Platform studies<br>
Game production studies<br>
Analog games<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Please
send your submissions to</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">: <a href="mailto:digrauk@gmail.com">digrauk@gmail.com</a><span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Full papers will be peer
reviewed. Abstracts, panels and any other activity proposed for the conference
will be evaluated by the conference organising committee (Dr Paolo Ruffino,
Prof. Garry Crawford and Dr Esther MacCallum-Stewart). Please note that in the
future the selection process will be moderated by the elected board.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Full Papers should be no
longer than 16 pages, and will be presented in 20 minutes.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Abstracts should be no
longer than 500 words, and will be presented in max. 10 minutes.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Panel proposals should be
no longer than 500 words, and will have a duration of 50 minutes.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">We welcome contributions
from participants who are not associated with academic institutions as long as
their proposal is relevant to game studies.<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Important
Dates</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Submission deadline: 5 March
2017<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Acceptance/rejection
notification: 26 March 2017<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black">Conference: 5 May 2017<span></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Dr. Paolo Ruffino<br><a href="http://paoloruffino.com" target="_blank">http://paoloruffino.com</a></div>
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