Felix Reer

Please consider submitting a paper to our special issue in the Journal Entertainment Computing (Elsevier):
Digital Worlds, Real Impact - The Evolving Role of Games in Society. Submission Deadline: 28 February 2026.
The full call can be found here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Doctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, salary level E 13 TV-L, 65%)

Two open PhD positions in the 5-year ERC project “DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities” (PI: Thorsten Quandt), studying toxicity & radicalization in gaming/tech/sci-fi communities. One with a quantitative, one with a qualitative focus:
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Wrapping up the Digital Games symposium with the panel “The bigger picture - Boundary conditions of game studies and game culture.” It’s been an honor to host this event in Palma! 🎮🌟

IB3N | En defensa dels videojocs com a mitjà artístic i cultural 50 experts d'arreu del món es reuneixen a Palma per parlar d'un sector sovint estigmatitzat

ECREA Digital Games Research Section Symposium featured in Spanish television:

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👾 Great first day at the ECREA Digital Games symposium! Incredible talks, inspiring people, and nonstop fresh ideas. So excited for Day 2! 🎮🚀

We are very proud that the keynote will be held by current ICA Game Studies Chair Ruud S. Jacobs @ruudxiv.bsky.social: “Uncharted or The Last of Us? Interrogating the Unrealized Potential of Serious Games.”

Hope to see you all in Palma!

Extremely looking forward to our ECREA Digital Games Research Section Symposium in Palma de Mallorca (25–26 September 2025)!
Check out the program here: irie.uib.cat/noticies/187...

The Digital Games Research Section will host several sessions at the ECREA conference 2026 in Brno, Czech Republic (8–11 September 2026). Submission deadline for abstracts (300–500 words): 8 January 2026. More information can be found on the conference website:
ecrea2026brno.eu

Frontiers | The Dark and the Light Side of Gaming (Volume II) This is the second Research Topic of a series. The first volume can be found here. In public debates, and among certain strands of scholarship, digital games...

The first five articles of the second volume of our special issue on “The Dark and the Light Side of Gaming” in Frontiers have been published. All open access! www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

EU-Forschungsrat zeichnet Thorsten Quandt mit Advanced Grant aus Der Kommunikationswissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Thorsten Quandt von der Universität Münster erhält einen mit 2,5 Millionen Euro dotierten „ERC Advanced Grant“ des Europäischen Forschungsrats. Mit dieser F...

Still confused, but uber-happy. The news came out right after #ICA25 has ended:

The European Research Council #ERC has awarded me an ERC Advanced Grant!

Project DANCE on "Dark Nerd Communities" runs for 5 years with 2.5 million Euros funding. Immensely grateful!

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REMINDER: this year’s symposium of ECREA Digital Games Research Section will be held at University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 25-26 September 2025!
The submission deadline for abstracts is 26.05.2025.
For more information: www.ecrea.eu/event-6168567

Autocratic attacks on free speech and science are a growing concern - in academia and beyond.

Join us for an online symposium with world-class experts like Robert Sternberg & @sethclewis.bsky.social.

Wednesday, 28. May, 6 p.m. CET. Open to everybody, register via link.

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We are very happy to announce that this year’s symposium of ECREA Digital Games Research Section will be held at University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 25-26 September 2025!
The submission deadline for abstracts is 26.05.2025.
For more information: www.ecrea.eu/event-6168567

A Survey Study on Public Attitudes Toward Gaming Disorder | Article | Media and Communication Felix Reer, Lena Maria Küpper, Florian Wintterlin, Thorsten Quandt

Excited to share our new article, "A Survey Study on Public Attitudes Toward Gaming Disorder", now published in Media and Communication (@CogitatioMaC)! Download it for free here: www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcomm... #OpenAccess

Digital Games at the Forefront of Change: On the Meaningfulness of Games and Game Studies Thematic Issue, Vol 13 (2025)

How can video games teach us something meaningful?

Our new open access issue explores how games function as cultural artifacts, social environments, and learning tools, examining their impact on identity, society, and the media landscape.

Frontiers | The Dark and the Light Side of Gaming: Volume II This Research Topic is the second volume of Research Topic "The Dark and the Light Side of Gaming". Please, see the first volume here. In public debates, and...

Reminder: Please consider submitting a paper to the second volume of our special issue on "The Dark and the Light Side of Gaming" in Frontiers in MediaPsych and Frontiers in Comm. Submission deadline: February 28, 2025. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Curious about what German-speaking media psychologists and our international friends are up to? Then this list might be for you.
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The Dark and the Light Side of Gaming: Volume II This Research Topic is the second volume of Research Topic

We are editing a 2nd volume of our special issue on „The Dark and the Light Side of Gaming“ in Frontiers in Comm. and Frontiers in Media Psych. Deadline: February 28. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Added about 25 names, and I'll add more every few days! go.bsky.app/VbvmLfK

Followed by a Keynote from Tine Ustad Figenschou on "What makes alternative media valuable?"
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@thorstenquandt.bsky.social is now opening #MISDOOM24

Check out the full program of #misdoom24 at misdoom2024.uni-muenster.de/program/

Find out more about the conference and the speakers at 2024.misdoom.org.

Additionally: JC Boucher (University of Calgary), Jānis Karlsbergs (NATO StratCom), Kyoko Kuwahara (Japan Institute of International Affairs) and Ofer Fridman (King's College London) will join us for a special panel.

We are also very happy to announce Tine Ustad Figenschou from the department of Journalism and Media Studies at OsloMet as Keynote speaker!

Registration for the 6th MISDOOM in Münster is now live!

Endlich wieder ... #GameStudies.

Speaker:innen auf dem #ScienceMashup - tolle Perspektiven auf Objekt Spiel und die Praxis der Spielens.

Send your CV and a brief description of your PhD project (max. 2 pages) to info@misdoom.org!

More info about the workshop is also in the call: www.misdoom2024.uni-muenster.de/call-for-con...
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To support early career researchers we will also host a PhD-Workshop as a pre-conference. Participants will present their ideas to each other and experts from the fields of communication and computer science.
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