CFP: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area

Call for Papers: Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area
SW/TX PCA/ACA & PCA/ACA Joint Conference
April 20-23, 2011
San Antonio, TX

The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area of the SW/TX
PCA/ACA welcomes paper, panel, and other proposals on games (digital
and otherwise) and their study and development.

Possible areas include (but are not limited to):

Alternative reality games
Archiving and artifactual preservation
Competitive/clan gaming
Design and development
Economic and industrial histories and studies
Educational games and their pedagogies
Foreign language games and culture
Advertising (both in-game and out)
Game art/game-based art
Haptics and interface studies
Localization
Machinima
MOGs, MMOGs, and other forms of online/networked gaming
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
Strategy games
Table-top games and gaming
Technological, aesthetic, economic, and ideological convergence
Theories of play
Wireless and mobile gaming

For paper proposals: Please submit a 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) and practitioners (developers, artists,
archivists, and so forth). Also, unusual formats, technologies, and
the like are encouraged.

The Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice Area is international in
scope and emphasizes diversity, an openness to innovative approaches
and presentations, and the energetic practice of post-conference
collaboration and publication.

Please submit proposals to Judd Ruggill (jruggill@asu.edu) by
12/15/2010. Information on the SW/TX PCA/ACA and its conference can be
found at: http://swtxpca.org.

Judd Ruggill, Area Chair
Game Studies, Culture, Play, and Practice
jruggill@asu.edu
http://www.swtxpca.org