Call for Papers: Creating Second Lives 2011: Crossing Boundaries
September 8th & 9th 2011
School of Creative Studies and Media, Bangor
University; Conveners: Dr Eben J. Muse and Dr Astrid Ensslin;
Submission deadline: 30 April 2011
The Creating Second Lives conference is a chance
to explore lives lived in virtual worlds,
electronic games, MMORPG and other parts of
cyberspace. Following Creating Second Lives
2008: Reading and Writing Virtual Communities,
the theme of the theme of Creating Second Lives
2011 is the blurring of boundaries in the mixed
reality of ubiquitous computing and augmented
reality. New technologies are moving users into
the screen (Microsoftâ??s Kinect), making the
user the screen (MITâ??s Sixth Sense), and
bringing the content out of the screen into the
world (smart-phones, Layars, Wikitude).
Pervasive games, Digital tourism, telematic art
and telematic performance are only a few
manifestations of this new set of boundaries
that must alter our definitions of fundamental
concepts of culture, gender, identity, race,
nation, authority, geography, space, narrative
and time. The distinction between second life
and first life is blurring at an increasingly rapid rate.
We invite proposals for twenty minute papers
that examine how people are using these
technologies to cross boundaries (technical,
spatial, temporal, cultural, social, political,
linguistic, ludic, economic) through a range of
theoretical and applied, empirical, critical,
rhetorical, creative, economic and professional approaches.
Conference papers will be considered for
subsequent publication in a special, themed
issue of the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds.
Please e-mail abstracts of 250-300 words to
(e.muse /at/ bangor.ac.uk) along with your name,
affiliation and title of paper. All queries
should also be directed to this address. Please
include in your proposal any technological needs.
The deadline for submission is 31st April 2011.
Selection of papers will be made by 15th May.
Further information concerning the conference
will soon be announced on our website:
https://sites.google.com/site/csl20110908/
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