[Commlist] Cfp for the Game Studies Division of NordMedia 2023

The Game Studies Division of _NordMedia_ is inviting contributions. The 
NordMedia conference will be held from the _16^th to the 18^th of August 
in Bergen, Norway_.

The _deadline for submissions is 15^th of February._

Below you can read the text for our call. We accept all forms of 
submission and especially panels and spaces for discussion would be very 
welcome. There is no formal agreement yet, but if there is interest then 
we can look at the possibility of a later publication.

Digital and digitally enabled games are the primary focus of this 
division. We invite contributions from technological, aesthetical, 
social, political, cultural, and activist perspectives. We accept full 
papers, long abstracts, panels, and workshop proposals.

Digital and digitally enabled games are tightly interwoven with 
technology. They require technological infrastructure for their 
production, distribution, and play. Technological progress is frequently 
portrait as a main driver of games. At that same time, games are 
presented as the aim of technological progress.

Games can even be said to be a kind of technology, a kind of medium with 
its own logics of expression, meaning-making, and manipulation. This 
call is interested in contributions that complicate the relationship of 
games and technology, that resist the simple binary of tech driving 
games, and that engage with the messy realities of lived cultures and 
human beings. We invite critical perspectives on the power relationships 
of game makers in this technological scaffolding and on the political 
economy of games and technology. We invite work that complicates the 
conversations around issues like:

–          Games and AI

–          Games and the metaverse

–          Games and digital platforms

–          Digitally enabled games and play

–          Digital game literacy

–          Games as technology

Here is the link to the general cfp for the conference:

https://nordmedianetwork.org/nordmedia-conference-2023/submission-guidelines-2023/

And here you can find the call for the Game Studies Division:

https://nordmedianetwork.org/nordmedia-conference-2023/divisions-and-twgs/division-12-game-studies/


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