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Lawrence has given us a great list of immerse documentaries to check out!
03.07.2025 15:51 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Our final paper today is from Lawrence Brannon presenting The Potential of Interactivity and Gamification Within Immersive Journalism & Interactive Documentary (i-docs) to Inoculate Against Misinformation
03.07.2025 15:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some fantastic videos created by Leo Wang capturing an autoethnographic experience of the realities of being an international student
03.07.2025 15:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A quick two minute break now before our penultimate paper today is from Leo Wang, presenting Becoming a 'Wojak': Life of an 'abnormal' international student
03.07.2025 14:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some really interesting reflections on AI and how it is deepening the need for critical thinking and creator knowledge.
03.07.2025 14:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Next up is Dr Nick Lewis presenting AI - Assistant or Replacement?
03.07.2025 13:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Loved the discussions from Amanda on player diaries and the difficulties of interviewing devs!
03.07.2025 13:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Well, now we want to play Death Stranding but no time as Amanda Curtis is launching us right into the next paper - Documenting Play: Player Journals as Tools for Inclusive Game Studies
03.07.2025 13:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Now we have Meg Ritchie presenting Play(er) as Research(er): An Autoethnographic Approach for the Analysis of Non-Normative Pleasures within Play
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Happy Shoppers is available here frankandalex.itch.io/happy-shoppers
03.07.2025 12:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Having a short break now but what a fantastic start to the conference!
03.07.2025 12:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dr Chloe Germaine is now taking us through The Hacking Method she has helped develop; looking at hacking as remaking, breaking and critical play. #CreativeMethodologiesConference
03.07.2025 12:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fantastic morning podcasting, looking forward to this afternoon!
03.07.2025 12:19 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We start with our first keynote from Dr Chloe Germaine, Playing, Making, and Breaking: Research through Games. Fantastic exploration of capacity of games to be played with, broken, and applied to design practice - and what we can learn from this!
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It's conference day! Tickets still available for our hybrid event starting at 1pm. Come join us for some wonderful papers of media methodologies!
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MultiPlay is working with the University of Sunderland and MeCCSA to host a special conference on media studies research methods. Come join our online event Creative Methodologies: Practical Play and Media Multiplicities on 3rd July. Tickets free!
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Need some research inspiration? Our conference papers are on our YouTube channel! Browse our playlists and discover new games studies ideas
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Video Game Monsters: A Compendium is shaping into an incredible collection but we're looking for scholars working in some specific areas to join this wonderful project, with submissions on the figure of the werewolf, classic monster games, and the monstrosity of the video games industry.
08.05.2025 13:53 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0We're delighted to share this special one day conference organised by Ewan Kirkland on Concept Art and Character Design: Critical and Creative Perspectives
Conference 18th July - abstracts due by 30th April!
Details here: cacd2025.edublogs.org
We're seeking abstracts for our third potential entry into our video game minigraph series! Minigraphs are REFable even though they are half the word count of a monograph. Details in the link below. Send abstracts/queries to networkmultiplay@gmail.com
multiplaynetwork.org/call-for-pap...
Come join us for our special Games in the Zeitgeist Conference on Jan 28th. Papers on Zelda, Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate and more!
Tickets free. Register here:
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The Games in the Zeitgeist Conference (@multiplaynetwork.bsky.social) will explore and celebrate trends in gaming culture in 2024 - sign up!!
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