[ecrea] CFP - Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice

>Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area
>SW/TX PCA/ACA & PCA/ACA Joint Conference
>April 20-23, 2011
>San Antonio, TX
>
>The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area of the SW/TX
>PCA/ACA welcomes paper, panel, and other proposals on games (digital
>and otherwise) and their study and development.
>
>Possible areas include (but are not limited to):
>
>Alternative reality games
>Archiving and artifactual preservation
>Competitive/clan gaming
>Design and development
>Economic and industrial histories and studies
>Educational games and their pedagogies
>Foreign language games and culture
>Advertising (both in-game and out)
>Game art/game-based art
>Haptics and interface studies
>Localization
>Machinima
>MOGs, MMOGs, and other forms of online/networked gaming
>Performance
>Pornographic games
>Religion and games
>Representations of race and gender
>Representations of space and place
>The rhetoric of games and game systems
>Serious games
>Strategy games
>Table-top games and gaming
>Technological, aesthetic, economic, and ideological convergence
>Theories of play
>Wireless and mobile gaming
>
>For paper proposals: Please submit a 250 word abstract embedded in the
>body of an email. Include contact information (e.g., postal and
>preferred email address, phone and fax numbers, etc.) and a
>biographical note about your connection to the topic.
>
>For panel and other proposals: Feel free to query first. Panel and
>other proposals should include all of the information requested for
>individual paper proposals, as well as a 100-word statement of the
>panel's raison d'etre and any noteworthy organizational features.
>
>As always, proposals are welcome from any and all scholars (including
>graduate students, independent scholars, and tenured, tenure-track,
>and emeritus faculty) and practitioners (developers, artists,
>archivists, and so forth). Also, unusual formats, technologies, and
>the like are encouraged.
>
>The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area is international in
>scope and emphasizes diversity, an openness to innovative approaches
>and presentations, and the energetic practice of post-conference
>collaboration and publication.
>
>Please submit proposals to Judd Ruggill ((jruggill /at/ asu.edu)) by
>12/15/2010. Information on the SW/TX PCA/ACA and its conference can be
>found at: http://swtxpca.org.
>
>Judd Ruggill, Area Chair
>Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice
>(jruggill /at/ asu.edu)
>http://www.swtxpca.org
>

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