[ecrea] "Gamevironments of the Past", #5 (2016), and 2 new CfP: regular issue + 'Jewish gamevironments'

we are happy to announce this year's Special Issue of GAMEVIRONMENTS  by 
Derek Fewster and Ylva Grufstedt (Helsinki) on gaming and history!
"Gamevironments of the Past", #5 (2016), includes articles, reports on 
current activities/trends, and interviews - all from the field of gaming 
and history:

Derek Fewster and Ylva Grufstedt: Introduction: Gamevironments of the 
Past – A Broad Take on Games and History
Robert Houghton: Where did you learn that? The self-perceived 
educational impact of historical computer games on undergraduates.
Samir Azrioual: Developing Time: Representing Historical Progression 
through Level Structures
Jayme Dale Mallindine: Ghost in the Cartridge: Nostalgia and the 
Construction of the JRPG Genre
Vinicius Marino Carvalho: History and Human Agency in Videogames
Brittany Kuhn: The Architecture of Bioshock as Metaphor for Ayn Rand’s 
Objectivism
Cassone & Thibault: The HGR Framework: A Semiotic Approach to the 
Representation of History in Digital Games
Sarah Zaidan: The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Developing a Historical 
Superhero Video Game
Owen Gottlieb: Who Really Said What? Mobile Historical Situated 
Documentary as Liminal Learning Space
Xenia Zeiler: The Indian Indie Game Development Scene – History and 
Cultural Heritage as Game Themes
Cecilia Trenter: Interview with the Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw and  Lead 
Writer David Gaider (and Lucas Christiansen) at BioWare about the Dragon 
Age games.

All articles are available on http://www.gamevironments.org. Enjoy!

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In addition, we announce two new CfP:
1) The next regular issue of gamevironments will be published in  summer 
2017. We invite submissions (articles, reports, interviews,  game/book 
reviews) by:
31.01. Full Chapter Submission
31.03. Review Results Returned
15.05. Revised Chapter Submission
summer Online-Publication

All submitted articles will be reviewed on a double-blind peer-review 
basis. Please get in touch with us if you have questions.

2) The next Special Issue of gamevironments, "JEWISH GAMEVIRONMENTS"  by 
Owen Gottlieb, will be published in Dec 2017.
The journal invites researchers to submit their work to gamevironments 
(http://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/) for possible publication in a 
special issue due for publication December 2017.

Whether by console, PC, mobile phone, VR headset, or other interface, 
video games and modern Jewish expression are now often intertwined. Jews 
who grew up with video games over the last forty years and who  are 
growing up today are literate in the mechanics, visuals, sound  effects, 
music, tropes, trends, and storylines of these games. That  literacy 
necessarily can frame and bend contemporary Jewish practices.  Likewise, 
those immersed in Jewish cultural and religious expression  read video 
games through sensibilities informed by their Jewish  journeys. 
Educator-researchers now develop video games for the  purposes of the 
acquisition of Jewish cultural practices, such as  understanding Jewish 
history, literature, and ethical reasoning.  Players explore religious 
and cultural through game interfaces.

In an effort to collect new research and perspectives on these and 
related themes, gamevironments seeks paper proposals for an issue with 
focus on Jewish cultural practices, including religious expression. We 
wish to collect results as well as theoretical, analytical, 
methodological, and other social science and humanities approaches to 
Jewish expression and video games, in a broad sense. Papers may  explore 
any aspect of the relationship between video games and Jewish  cultural 
practices, including religious practices. For example, but  not limited to:

         Video games as Jewish cultural expression or practice

         Video game practices intersecting with contemporary Jewish 
cultural and religious practices

         Jewish studies approaches to video games; video game 
approaches to Jewish studies

         Design principles based on data and scholarly theoretical 
frameworks known in the humanities and the social sciences

         Interreligious or interfaith studies of video games including 
Jewish cultural practices

         Analysis of video game culture through Jewish scholarly lenses

         Expressions of Jewish life in video games, regardless of genre

         Video game studies, critical and cultural analysis on Jewish 
topics

         Jewish cultural expression or history in the video game industries

         The use of Jewish sources for creating environments, styles, 
art, soundscapes, traditions, languages, lore, myths, religions or any 
sense of adaptation of Jewish sources

         Space, time, and/or place: the use in video games of Jewish 
conceptions of time, maps tied to Jewish history, and/or of Jewish locations

         The use of Jewish tropes, allusions, stereotypes, storylines, 
literary references, or narrative structures

         Approaches to creating speculative/fictional religious systems 
influenced by Judaism

         Issues of Jewish journeys, beliefs, ideas, ideologies, 
politics, ethics, morality, and agency in video games

         Video games as elements, adjusters, or renewers of a 
collective and narrative memory

         Video games as history, politics, including e.g. themes of 
historical traumatization, nationalism, anti-Semitism, emancipation, 
gender, totalitarianism, heritage, Jewish ethnic identities,

         Serious games, games for social impact, games for learning 
related to Jewish life.


Studies related to any of the above-mentioned ideas, or other similar 
topics, are welcome as submission to this issue.

Submission deadlines:
Title and abstract submission (approx. 500 words plus Harvard style 
references to be included): 29.03.2017
Full text submission: 12.07.2017
Review results returned: 13.09.2017
Revised text submission: 8.11.2017
Online publication: 31.12.2017

Please consult the gamevironments submission style sheet before 
submitting your paper, 
http://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/gv-stylesheet.pdf 
, as well as the Help Desk 
http://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/submission-guideline/ for some 
general  principles.

Note: All abstracts must include Harvard style references.

Please send any queries, texts and articles as RTF files to the issue 
editor, Owen Gottlieb using the subject header “gamevironments:”

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All the best and a Happy New Year to all!
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Xenia Zeiler
(editors-in-chief)


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