Dear List Members,

I'm delighted to announce that the 10th anniversary issue of Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds is online now, featuring an exciting line-up of cutting edge research from such fast evolving areas as queer game studies, Japanese game studies, cognitive game studies, and cultural/sonic virtual worlds research:

"Looking back: Ten years of editing gaming and virtual worlds scholarship"
by Astrid Ensslin 

"The impossible relationship: Deconstructing the private space in Gone Home"
by Shane Snyder 

"Emergent affect in Final Fantasy VII and Japanese role-playing games"
by Mattias van Ommen 

"Why are non-player characters not creepy anymore? The effect of schema creation on the perception of uncanniness in Oblivion"
by Michael Sangyeob Lee 

"The dialectic of the avatar: Developing in-world identities in Second Life"
by Irina Kuznetcova, Jamie Teeple and Michael Glassman 

"Listening in the aether: Rehearing and imagining the world virtually"
by Phylis Johnson 

Review of The Last of Us
by Sara Bushway 


All best,

Astrid


--
Astrid Ensslin, Dr. phil., FRSA, FHEA
Professor in Digital Humanities and Game Studies
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies / Humanities Computing
200 Old Arts (mail) / 241C Old Arts (office)
University of Alberta
Edmonton AB
T6G 2E6

Twitter: @AstridEnsslin; @ReadDigFic


New course (fall 2018): MLCS 399 Videogames Across Cultures

Latest publication:

Ensslin, Astrid, Lisa Swanstrom and Pawel Frelik (2018), Small Screen Fictions. Special Issue of Paradoxa, 29.



Favorite quote:

"Imagining yourself as a dot of light on a screen is oddly reassuring." (Jennifer Egan, "Black Box")

The Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta is committed to creating welcoming physical, material, and intellectual spaces by respecting and celebrating differences of gender identity and expression, race, sexual orientation, ability, class, ethnicity, nation, and religion. We honour our location in ᐊᒥᐢᑿᒌᐚᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Amiskwacîwâskahikan) on Treaty 6 territory.


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