[ecrea] Fwd: Call for Papers: Communication Papers. Videogames: Art, Industry and Education

*CALL FOR PAPERS*
*/Communication Papers: Media Literacy & Gender Studies/*
*Video Games: Art, Industry and Education*
*Vol.4, No 6, June 2015*
*Submission Deadline: May 31st, 2015*

Communication Papers journal invites submissions for its next issue
whose current title is "Video Games: Art, Industry and Education".
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Video games and apps that allow users to interact with each other were
considered just a curiosity forty years ago. But today they are two of
the most famed forms of entertainment and simulation methods. And they
have become dominant elements of the global culture. Because of the
ubiquity and evolution of the video game technology and the interactive
systems, we need to understand them not only as a commercial product but
aesthetic objects, learning contexts, technical constructions,
environment simulators and a cultural phenomenon. As users can interact
with content, video games become an important part of the digital
entertainment systems and they have a strong relationship with social
networks, virtual environments and mobile devices, among others. The
growing opportunities of the video games and interactive systems sectors
are appreciable: new technologies and devices availability, an
improvement of the use and consumption of video games habits, the use of
video games with a more formal approach such as the development of new
business models, the learning or simulation of cultural environments,
and the connection to social networks. Video games are one of the key
issues of the visual culture, understood this as a specific discipline
for analyzing and interpreting contemporary culture involved by art,
semiotics, anthropology, sociology, psychology and neuroscience.



TOPICS

- Ethics in video game industry: self-regulation and European Directive

- Semiotic of audiovisual and multimedia discourse in video game
environment

- Second screen and the impact of multitasking viewer

- Cultural industries of the video games: economic, social and aesthetic
aspects

- Interactive multimedia contents

- Advergaming: the video game as an advertising tool

- Technology and new languages in the video game industry

- Narrative challenges for the 21st century

- Video games in social networks

- Game-art

- Audiovisual and Hypermedia Narrative: structure, semantics, poetic,
rhetoric and pragmatism

- Learning and video games

- Gamification of the learning process

- Gamification in the classroom

- Video games and development of multiple intelligences

- Communities of gamers and learning

  - Development of values through the video games

- Gender and video games



STANDARS OF SUBMISSION

Only original and unpublished proposals will be considered. Articles
must respect the rules of APA style. Each manuscript should be between
7,000 and 8,500 words in main text and 200 words in abstract. All
submissions will be blind-refereed. Complete manuscripts should be ready
for peer review by May 31st. Publication is due for June 2015.
Submission in the web sites the manuscript by the standard template of
the journal. Include one separate little page containing title,
author/s, affiliation/s and the address, phone, and email of the lead
author. Manuscripts can be written in Catalan, Eusquera, Spanish,
English, Portuguese, French and Italian.

Please, submit manuscripts to the Communication Papers web site at:
http://www.communicationpapers.com

You can download the standard template for articles in:

http://communicationpapers.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/cp_articulos_maq.doc

TIMELINE

· Submission Deadline: May 31st, 2015

· Date of Publication: June 30th, 2015



Please, feel free to circulate this call to other people that might have
an interest to contribute.

Kind regards,

Nuria Fernandez-Garcia
(nurfergar /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(nurfergar /at/ gmail.com)>
Scientific Coordinator, Communication Papers



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