DiGRA’s general meeting of the association will take place this coming August 29, 2013 from 1:30-2:30pm during the 2013 DiGRA Conference. Room location will be posted on the conference schedule. All members are invited to attend. The agenda is available below.
Monthly Archives: July 2013
CfP: IEEE 3rd International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health
IEEE 3rd International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health
May 14-16, 2014 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society
CfP: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area (SWPACA)
35th Annual Southwest Popular / American Culture Association Conference
February 19-22, 2014
Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center
Albuquerque, NM, USA
http://www.southwestpca.org
Job: Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies (game and media studies friendly)
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Foreign Languages and Literatures section invites applications for a tenure-track position in contemporary Latin American Studies at the level of Assistant Professor, to begin in Fall 2014 (employment begins July 1, 2014). Candidates must hold a completed Ph.D. by the start of employment. Preference will be given to candidates with two years of academic teaching experience at the college or university level and clear evidence of scholarly development.
CfP: Game-related panel participants for SCMS Conference
The SCMS Video Game Studies Scholarly Interest Group is once again pleased to circulate a compilation of game-related panels looking for participants for the upcoming 2014 conference, March 19 through March 23 at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel in Seattle, WA.
Please see below this message for summaries and contact information about the following proposed panels.
Job: Visiting Assistant Professor/Instructor in Game Design, Miami University (Ohio), USA
Miami University (in Ohio) is currently searching for a visiting assistant professor or visiting instructor to teach introductory courses on game design starting August, 2013. There is more info on the position here:
Preliminary Results of State of Digital Games Research International Survey
Some months ago, an international survey assessing the state of digital games research was conducted by the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA), the Digital Games Research Temporary Working Group of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) and the Game Studies Special Interest Group of the International Communication Association (ICA). The goal of the study was to obtain a clearer picture of the people involved in research into digital games: their backgrounds, types of activities, perceptions of the field and ideas for future directions.
Preliminary results have been presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) Conference last month and work on a manuscript with full results is currently under way.
http://www.digital-games.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ICA-Presentation-Van-Looy-Quandt-et-al.pdf
Job: Senior Lecturer / Programme Leader in Digital Media Arts / Interactive Media Design, University of Hertfordshire
The purpose of the role is to lead the undergraduate programmes in Interactive Media Design and Digital Media Arts. The post holder will have expertise in one more of the following areas: User Experience, games or app design, interactive narratives, digital kinetics, interactive objects or environments and or net art. She or he will make a significant contribution to teaching and research in the School.
CfP: EVE Online Workshop @ DiGRA 2013
Despite being released in 2003, the sci-fi massively multiplayer online game EVE Online has garnered little academic study. 2013 celebrated the 10th anniversary of EVE Online, in addition to surpassing 500,000 active subscriptions for the first time. In a number of important and fundamental ways, EVE is unique, and this uniqueness translates into the potential for interesting and innovative research. We believe that it will be invaluable to have a corpus of this research assembled together, to guide future research in this domain and emphasise the broader contributions EVE scholarship can make. Consequently, we’re delighted to invite you to contribute to an EVE Online workshop at the DiGRA 2013 conference, with the goal of discussing and outlining an ‘EVE Online Reader‘; an edited collection of EVE Online scholarship.
Jobs: Postdoc and PhD Positions (Netherlands)
Utrecht University (UU), Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) are looking for highly motivated Postdoc and PhD candidates who consider it a challenge to conduct their research in the context of a collaborative research project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) on Persuasive gaming. From theory-based design to validation and back. The project is a collaboration between UU, TU/e, EUR and a number of Dutch game developers.