{"id":6,"date":"2022-03-28T08:53:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T08:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conference.unizd.hr\/videogamescommon\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2022-08-23T07:45:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T07:45:39","slug":"call-for-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conference.unizd.hr\/videogamescommon\/call-for-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Call for papers<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the simplest terms, a video game is an interactive electronic game with a user
\ninterface that provides visual feedback. The phenomenon of video games, however,
\nis anything but simple. Their commercial, if limited, availability in the 1970s and
\n1980s foreshadowed the popularity that has unfolded at the beginning of the 21st
\ncentury in an ever-growing variety of genres and stories, game mechanics, visual
\nand artistic styles, hardware capacities, and sensory possibilities. Moreover, they are
\nnow consumed\u00a0 en\u00a0 masse\u00a0 around the world and are easily accessible through
\neveryday devices such as cell phones, tablets, as well as gaming consoles and
\ncomputers. With this diversification and expansion, video games have become a
\ncommon ground for scholars in social sciences, humanities, and a number of other
\ndisciplines and fields of research who are exploring a wide range of topics and social
\nand cultural\u00a0 issues, from game narratives and storytelling practices, economic
\nbehavior of players, gaming cultures, social relations, health effects of gaming, educational possibilities of video games, to the politics of gaming, the virtual world,
\nas well as countless other themes.<\/p>\n

By engaging all forms of video game research, Video Games as a Common Ground
\naims to address various topics, issues, and challenges related to video games and
\ngaming\u00a0 in order to understand not only their impact, but also their potential. The
\nconference aims at a cross-disciplinary dialogue that will\u00a0 hopefully\u00a0 lead to\u00a0 new
\nexperiences and the expansion of the academic discourse relating to this subject,
\ntogether with possible\u00a0 (unexpected) future\u00a0 collaborations. We, therefore, invite
\nproposals that would address any of the presented possible topics, as well as those
\nintroducing new ones relating to the field of video games and gaming:<\/p>\n

\u25cf\u00a0 Story =\/vs Narrative
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Narratives of difference (nation, class, ethnicity, race, gender, disability, and
\nsexuality)
\n\u25cf\u00a0 New and familiar literary experiences (ambient literature, poetry games, digital
\npoems)
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Gamifying places\u00a0 (cities, monuments, parks), gamifying people, gamifying
\nhistories
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Questions of commons and the right to play in the video game culture
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Stories about crises\u00a0 –\u00a0 Ecocriticism in video games, video games and the
\nanthropocene, imagining the future, crises and videogames (covid-19,
\neconomic crisis, ecological crisis\u2026)
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Video games and resistance (video games and social change, activism in video
\ngames)
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Video Games in education; Institutionalization of video games in education
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Video games as affective spaces (affective investment in video games,
\nemotions, senses, affects and\/in video games)
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Performance, play and role-playing in digital culture
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Theatre and video games
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Liminality and rituals in video games
\n\u25cf\u00a0 New ways of worldbuilding
\n\u25cf\u00a0 In-game photography, video-game camera and technoart
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Time and temporality, space and spatiality in video-game storytelling
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Folklore, folklorism and video games
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Sensing the digital environment
\n\u25cf\u00a0 New forms of emergent narratives
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Relation between players and game characters; Avatars and subjectivity
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Exploration and observant play
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Autobiographical video games and authorship in video games
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Mental health and video games (reward systems, therapeutic video games,
\nachievements and ladder-anxiety)
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Cartography, mobile technology and augmented reality
\n\u25cf\u00a0 Gaming cultures<\/p>\n

We invite submissions for presentations of up to 15 minutes. Please send proposals
\nof no more than 300 words and a brief biographical note to videogamescommon@gmail.com<\/a> .
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Due to an increased interest in submitting abstracts for the conference \u201cVideo Games
\nas a Common Ground\u201d in the last few days, we are pleased to extend the deadline
\nfor the submission and the invitation to participate in the conference. We are now
\naccepting abstracts until July 1st, 2022<\/strong>. If you have already started writing your
\nabstract but have not managed to complete it, now is the time!<\/p>\n

The conference is expected to be held online via Zoom platform on September 2nd,
\n2022. There are no fees for presenting and\/or participating at the conference.<\/p>\n

For additional information, please contact Zlatko Buka\u010d, Jelena Kupsjak, and Emilia
\nMusap at videogamescommon@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>Applications should be sent in a single Word document to
\nvideogamescommon@gmail.com<\/a><\/strong>. <\/strong>The file name should include the author\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

The application should include:
\n* an abstract (max. 300 words)
\n* a short biographical note including your institutional affiliation, contact information,
\nand major publications<\/p>\n

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