Last week, I was pleased to participate as an invited speaker at the State Department's Tech@State: Serious Games conference. Everyone there was terrific, and it presented a rich opportunity to learn from industry leaders and gifted designers. Our formal statements were short, generally 10 minutes each, but were followed by an hour or so of energetic exchange. A few members of the audience at our panel ("Academic Perspectives on Serious Games") asked for a transcript of my comments, so I thought I'd annotate them and post them to the blog. Read more – ‘Transcript of my comments at the Dept. of State’.
HASTAC (The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) is definitely worth getting to know: I’ve been to two of their conferences, and they are terrific. Today, their blog calls attention to a new Call For Papers (Trento, Italy, Sept 2010) that is interesting chiefly for its desire to blend game studies with STS: CFP: [...] Read more – ‘CFP: Digital Game Play as Sociotechnical Practice | HASTAC’.
D. Linda Garcia and I, together with Hanan Gazit at H.I.T., will serve as guest editors for a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. In addition to regular papers, the special issue will feature some of the papers presented at the SLACTIONS conference in late September. The metaverse is emerging, through [...] Read more – ‘The Metaverse (Some Assembly Required)’.
