Gameology: Commentary and Resources for the Game Studies Community

What: Conference, "SW/Texas PCA/ACA: Video and Computer Game Studies"

Sponsor: PCA/ASA

Deadline For Submissions: 14 November 2007

Website: http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/

Details:

CALL FOR PAPERS: Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 13-16, 2008

Video and Computer Game Studies
Computer Culture Area
The 29th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
http://www.h-net.org/~swpca/.

The Computer Culture Area of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association welcomes paper, panel, and other proposals in video and computer game studies. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

• Alternate reality games
• Archiving and artifactual preservation
• Economic and industrial histories
• Educational game design and development
• Foreign language games and culture
• Game advertising (both in-game and out)
• Haptics and interface studies
• Localization
• Luddology and other theories of play
• Machinima
• MOGs, MMOGs, and other forms of online/networked gaming
• Narratology
• Performance
• Pornographic games
• Religion and games
• Representations of race and gender
• Representations of space and place
• The rhetoric of games and game systems
• Serious games
• Table-top game design and theory
• Technological, aesthetic, economic, and ideological convergence
• Wireless and mobile gaming

For Paper Proposals:

Please submit 250 word abstract embedded in the body of an email. Include contact information (e.g., postal and preferred email address, phone and fax numbers, etc.) and a biographical note about your connection to the topic.

For Panel and Other Proposals:

Feel free to query first. Panel and other proposals should include all of the information requested for individual paper proposals, as well as a 100-word statement of the panel's raison d'etre and any noteworthy organizational features.

As always, proposals are welcome from any and all scholars, including graduate students, independent scholars, and tenured, tenure-track, and emeritus faculty. Also, unusual formats, technologies, and the like are encouraged.

Send proposals by November 15, 2007 to:

Judd Ruggill
School of Media Arts
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
jruggill at email.arizona.edu