[Commlist] CFP for the Game Studies Division of the NordMedia 2025 Conference

The Game Studies Division of the NordMedia 2025 Conference on the 
13th-15th of August 2025 in Odense, Denmark, the is inviting submissions.

The submission DEADLINE is 28th of February 2025. We accept full papers, 
long abstracts, panels, and workshop proposals. The division has in the 
last years successfully been organizing a peer discussant for each 
presentation to ensure an active discussion and productive feedback and 
we will continue that as well for 25.

Here is the conference CFP with the links to the submission system as 
well as the Divisions.

https://nordmedianetwork.org/latest/news/nordmedia-25-call-for-submissions/

We are looking forward to your submissions.

Games and play with their combination of immersion, interactivity, and 
co-creativity are uniquely suited to create and share visions and 
versions of livable futures. This year we are especially interested in 
research on games from all kinds of perspectives that focuses on the 
ways in which games can contribute to extending and supporting 
imagination, allow critical thinking and alternative visions, and in a 
time of crisis on the planet carry visions of positive, hopeful, and 
humane futures. This can be both showing desirable futures or creating a 
practical path towards them through action.

The Game Studies division welcomes both theoretical and practical work, 
game design research and research through design, as well as analytic 
and exploratory work or steps towards policy or education. Digital games 
are the primary focus of this division, but also analog games are welcome.

Some of the topics we are interested in are:

- Games and sustainability
- Games and the cultural imaginary
- Games and alternative/speculative futures
- Games and hope
- Games and critical thinking
- Games and education for survival
- Games and the organization of social movements
- Games and activism

Communication and Media Studies scholars are more than welcome to join 
the group and event.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Patrick 
Prax ((patrick.prax /at/ speldesign.uu.se)).


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