[Commlist] CfP DiGRA Brazil

This is a reminder that the deadline for submissions (abstracts) for the 
DiGRA Brazil 2024 is next Friday, March 1st. The full CfP follows below.


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*DiGRA Brazil 2024
Game Studies in Brazil: challenges and possibilities
Fluminense Federal University (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro)
May 8-10, 2024*

*Call for Papers:*

Digital and analog games have consolidated themselves over the last 
three decades as one of Brazilian society’s most important vectors of 
entertainment and media experience. Its repercussions and influence 
across the social spectrum are unavoidable: from the relevance of its 
characters to the budget of its film and television adaptations, from 
the appropriation of its mechanics as a way of boosting the world of 
work to the rise of professional players to star status, it is not 
possible to understand the contemporary media and social landscape 
without conceiving the protagonism that games have. In their 
intersections with Brazilian culture, games found a place to flourish.

It is only natural, therefore, that the Digra Brasil conference – the 
national arm of the Digital Games Research Association – in its 2024 
edition, seeks to take a careful look at the local understanding of our 
scenario and cultural constitution. Game studies is a historically 
organized field in the USA and Europe, especially Scandinavia. Although 
in Brazil, academic research into digital games had its first 
expressions in the first decade of the 21st century, in areas such as 
pedagogy, psychology, and communication, only recently were we able to 
witness the growth of themes and objects of investigation that directly 
dialogue with issues and contexts specific to the Brazilian reality.

This awakening is necessary to understand the relationship between games 
and players in Brazil’s social, cultural, political, and economic 
aspects. In other words, it is urgent and imperative to create and 
disseminate knowledge and epistemologies that take these contexts into 
account, encouraging original research that dialogues with the Brazilian 
reality.

In this spirit, we invite researchers to submit abstracts within the 
following thematic axes, but not limited to them:

•⁠ ⁠Digital games and Brazilian reality
•⁠ ⁠Games, politics, and power
•⁠ ⁠Relationships between play and work
•⁠ ⁠Games, consumption, and consumers
•⁠ ⁠Digital games and decoloniality
•⁠ ⁠Digital games in their transmedia relationship
•⁠ ⁠Digital games and spectatorship
•⁠ ⁠Digital games and aesthetic experience
•⁠ ⁠Playful appropriation
•⁠ ⁠Digital games and sociability
•⁠ ⁠Streaming and streamers
•⁠ ⁠Archaeology of games
•⁠ ⁠History of video games in Brazil
•⁠ ⁠Digital and analog Role-Playing Games
•⁠ ⁠Boardgames

The DiGRA Brasil 2024 conference will occur in person at the 
Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói/Rio de Janeiro) at the 
Institute of Art and Social Communication between the 8th and 10th of 
May 2024. To promote maximum participation, we welcome article proposals 
(250-500 words, including References) written in English or Portuguese 
on any aspect of games or related to games research.

The deadline for submitting proposals is*Friday, March 1, 2024*. 
Proposals must be submitted through the event’s official website 
at:https://digrabrasil2024.medialudens.ccunder theSubmissions 
<https://digrabrasil2024.medialudens.cc/inscricoes-registration/>link.

*Important Dates:*
01/03/2024: Submissions deadline
22/03/2024: Notification of acceptance
23/03/2024 to 30/04/2024: Event registration

If you have any questions, please contact us via 
email:(contato /at/ digrabrasil2024.medialudens.cc)

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