[ecrea] New issue: The International Journal of Film and Media Arts - Videogames and narratives

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*The International Journal of Film and Media Arts Volume: 2, Number: 
2*http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/issue/current 
<http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/issue/current>is available 
online.

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*Vol. 2, No. 2: Videogames and narratives***

Research around videogames is an emergent area of study within social 
sciences. The number of games published annually keeps growing 
exponentially, with an enormous diversity in content, spanning all 
areas, from education to entertainment.

Several international organizations – in particular The Europan League 
of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) and the Higher Education Video Game 
Alliance (HEGVA) – seek to organize the debate around the academic 
training of researchers, programmers and artists in the video game area, 
to forestall a growing confusion in how they integrate curricula. In 
Portugal, the Portuguese Society for Videogame Sciences (SPCV) seeks to 
promote and develop videogame sciences and congregate all those involved 
in them to foster knowledge and scientific interchange.

On SPCV’s behest, the coordination of the degree in Multimedia 
Applications and Videogames of the Lusophone University of Humanities 
and Sciences organized the International Videogames 2017 conference, 
under the title “Videogames as a form of art”, in order to promote 
debate, scientific culture, research and the videogame industry in 
Portugal. Likewise, the International Journal of Film and Media Arts has 
partnered up with this initiative, by hosting this special issue on 
gaming studies, thus furthering the scientific contribution into 
contemporary challenges around gaming research in academia.

This special issue has four papers in it, all somehow addressing the 
connection between videogames and media arts, especially cinema. Drawing 
from a multitude of scientific areas and discourses, this special issue 
demonstrates clearly how interdisciplinarity is fundamental to advance 
the study and teaching of videogames within Communication Sciences, 
Computer Sciences, and Arts Studies.

*Number editors:*Daniel S. Cardoso, Filipe C. Luz

*Table of contents*

EDITORIAL__

Daniel S. Cardoso, Filipe C. Luz

_Full Papers_

Games Can Plays Us: The power of disempowerment in “emotional engineering”

Eva R. Filipe

Curating The Arcade:Strategies for the exhibition of videogames

Sofia Romualdo

Suspense Mechanics In Narrative Video Games

Lluís Sayol, Àngel Colom Pons

A DEBT REPAID: Shout-out to videogame adaptations

Jacopo Wassermann

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*About the journal*

The International Journal of Film and Media Arts is an online semiannual 
publication, written in English and Portuguese, promoted by the Center 
for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies 
(CICANT / CIC.Digital) and the Department of Film and Media Arts (DCAM) 
from ECATI, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (Lisbon, 
Portugal). The IJFMA focuses on all areas of film and media arts 
research and critique, namely animation, television, media arts, 
videogames, fine arts, sound and their varied social and cultural forms 
of expression and materialization.



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