[ecrea] CFP ANZCA preconference: Social, Casual, Mobile: Changing Games

Social, Casual, Mobile: Changing Games,
ANZCA 2013 PreConference, 2 July 2013, Perth, Western Australia.
Keynote Speaker: Mia Consalvo, Concordia University in Montreal 
http://about.me/miaconsalvo
Plenary Speaker: John Banks, Queensland University of Technology 
http://www.playification.com/

Social, casual and mobile games – primarily experienced on smartphones 
and online social networks – are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and 
in the process, changing the ways in which games are designed, 
understood and, most importantly, played. This preconference will 
explore this rapidly changing gaming landscape and discuss the ludic, 
methodological, theoretical, economic, social and cultural challenges 
that these changes invoke. Importantly, social, casual and mobile games 
do not exist in a vacuum, so the challenges, changes and continuities in 
relation to previous digital and physical games and gaming practices are 
also open for analysis.

Topics might include, but are by no means limited to:
· Design and industry shifts from traditional games to mobile and 
networked games
· New user demographics
· Virtual currencies, in-game purchases, the .99c price-point and other 
economic issues
· Games as surveillance and the exchange of user information for game 
progress
· Zynga: The Rise and (partial) Fall of Facebook’s Biggest Gaming Friend
· Mobile Franchises: Angry Birds, Plants V Zombies, and so on.
· South-East Asian and other non-Western gaming cultures
· Gaming communities
· Gamification - the good, the bad, and the scoreboard
· Convergence and social, casual and mobile games
· Edutainment
· The sociality or otherwise of social games
· Shifting landscape from PC and console games to social, casual and 
mobile games
· Locative games: place and mobility

Paper abstracts of no more than 500 words, or full papers of no more 
than 5000 words, including a brief biographic statement, using APA 6th 
referencing style, are due Friday, 29 March 2013 (accepted papers and 
abstracts will be notified by 15 April 2013), emailed to 
(socialcasualmobile /at/ gmail.com).

Pre-conference papers and abstracts will not appear in the ANZCA 
proceedings; rather they will automatically be considered for inclusion 
in an edited collection on the topic Social, Casual, Mobile: Changing 
Games being organised concurrently with the preconference. If you do NOT 
want your paper or abstract considered for inclusion in this collection, 
please note this when emailing your submission.

For more details please visit http://socialcasualmobile.blogspot.com


Dr Michele Willson
Associate Professor | Department of Internet Studies
School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts

Tel | +61 8 9266 3594
Fax | +61 8 9266 3152
Email | (m.willson /at/ curtin.edu.au)


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