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CFP: DiGRA/FDG 2016
Please spread the word: CFP DiGRA/FDG 2016 – 1st Joint International Conference of DiGRA and FDG For the first time, the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and the Foundation of Digital Games...
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Money & Games blog note, #moneygames
A quick note about the Money & Games seminar, based on the first day: I was expecting the relationships between money and games to be diverse and rather complex field, and I was not disappointed...
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Three movies
I had some movie tickets that were expiring in Sunday, so I went for it, watching in a row three recent movies in cinema. All of these were transmedia storytelling – two of these were movies based on...
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LARP: Art not worthy?
Worldcon 75 in Helsinki has generally been an excellent event with multiple cultures, diverse forms of art and innumerable communities of fandom coming together. However, what left bit of a bad taste...
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Cognitive engineering of mixed reality
iOS 11: user-adaptable control centre, with application and function shortcuts in the lock screen. In the 1970s and 1980s the concept ‘cognitive engineering’ was used in the industry labs to describe...
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I will be speaking in April 26th about the “Potentials of multidisciplinary collaboration in the study of future game and play forms” in A MAZE, Clash of Realities collaborative seminar: Academic and...
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I have studied immersive phenomena over the years, and still am fascinated by what Finnish language so aptly catches with the idiom “Muissa maailmoissa” (literally: “in other worlds” – my dictionary...
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Microblogging
My updates about e.g. Diablo3, or Pokémon GO, will go into https://frans.game.blog/. I decided to experiment with microblogging, and set up three new sites: https://frans.photo.blog/,...
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Why take bird photos?
I have always enjoyed moving in the nature and taking photographs, but I have never been a particularly passionate ”birder” – someone who would eagerly participate in bird observation, or learn...
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Critiques of Purity – Two Studies on Player Agency & Game Studies’ Politics
[This is cross-posted from the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies’ website] Two recent studies of Professor Frans Mäyrä, both published in the open access journal GAME, deal with a key...
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