[Commlist] CFP for the Game Studies TWG at NordMedia 2021

The Game Studies TWG of the NordMedia 2021 conference is inviting your 
submissions:

Digital games are the primary focus of this TWG. We invite contributions 
from technological, aesthetical, social, political, cultural, and 
activist perspectives. This temporary working group accepts both full 
papers, long abstracts, panels, and workshop proposals.

Digital games are a central element of the Nordic media ecology both in 
terms of playing and making games. The impact games and gaming on our 
societies are both hard to define and undeniable. They extend towards 
increased access to cultural production and creativity, allowing people 
to be social in isolation, and to expand the social imaginary. At the 
same time, they might lead to exploitation and precarity, isolate people 
under the guise of sociability, and are connected to xenophobic and 
bigoted movements that threaten our democratic society and civic 
liberties. This means that the study of games and gaming in critical 
media studies is crucial at this point both to increase our 
understanding and our capacity for collective action. This means that 
this TWG is an inclusive home for a diverse, critical, activist, and 
political work connected to games and game culture. Together we can be 
resilient and weather the crisis.

https://nordmedianetwork.org/nordmedia-conference-2021/divisions-and-twgs/twg-1-game-studies/

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

Please do not hesitate to contact the co-chair Patrick Prax if you have 
any questions or comments: (patrick.prax /at/ speldesign.uu.se)

Co-chairs Patrick Prax and Andreas Lindegaard Gregersen


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