Lawrence has given us a great list of immerse documentaries to check out!

Our final paper today is from Lawrence Brannon presenting The Potential of Interactivity and Gamification Within Immersive Journalism & Interactive Documentary (i-docs) to Inoculate Against Misinformation

Some fantastic videos created by Leo Wang capturing an autoethnographic experience of the realities of being an international student

A quick two minute break now before our penultimate paper today is from Leo Wang, presenting Becoming a 'Wojak': Life of an 'abnormal' international student

Some really interesting reflections on AI and how it is deepening the need for critical thinking and creator knowledge.

Next up is Dr Nick Lewis presenting AI - Assistant or Replacement?

Loved the discussions from Amanda on player diaries and the difficulties of interviewing devs!

Well, now we want to play Death Stranding but no time as Amanda Curtis is launching us right into the next paper - Documenting Play: Player Journals as Tools for Inclusive Game Studies

Now we have Meg Ritchie presenting Play(er) as Research(er): An Autoethnographic Approach for the Analysis of Non-Normative Pleasures within Play

Happy Shoppers by frankandalex A New and Most Disgusting Game for Consumers of All Ages 32 Grotesqueries of Capitalism Beautifully Corrupt

Happy Shoppers is available here frankandalex.itch.io/happy-shoppers

Having a short break now but what a fantastic start to the conference!

Dr Chloe Germaine is now taking us through The Hacking Method she has helped develop; looking at hacking as remaking, breaking and critical play. #CreativeMethodologiesConference

Fantastic morning podcasting, looking forward to this afternoon!

We start with our first keynote from Dr Chloe Germaine, Playing, Making, and Breaking: Research through Games. Fantastic exploration of capacity of games to be played with, broken, and applied to design practice - and what we can learn from this!

Creative Methodologies: Practical Play and Media Multiplicities A special conference examining the wonderful potential of research methods in media studies.

It's conference day! Tickets still available for our hybrid event starting at 1pm. Come join us for some wonderful papers of media methodologies!

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Creative Methodologies: Practical Play and Media Multiplicities A special conference examining the wonderful potential of research methods in media studies.

MultiPlay is working with the University of Sunderland and MeCCSA to host a special conference on media studies research methods. Come join our online event Creative Methodologies: Practical Play and Media Multiplicities on 3rd July. Tickets free!

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Need some research inspiration? Our conference papers are on our YouTube channel! Browse our playlists and discover new games studies ideas

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Video Game Monsters: A Compendium is shaping into an incredible collection but we're looking for scholars working in some specific areas to join this wonderful project, with submissions on the figure of the werewolf, classic monster games, and the monstrosity of the video games industry.

We're delighted to share this special one day conference organised by Ewan Kirkland on Concept Art and Character Design: Critical and Creative Perspectives

Conference 18th July - abstracts due by 30th April!

Details here: cacd2025.edublogs.org

Call For Papers: Books and Journals Call For Proposals: Video Games MiniGraphs MultiPlay is excited to announce that we are launching a new minigraph series: Video Games… Minigraphs are much shorter and concise forms of monographs, u…

We're seeking abstracts for our third potential entry into our video game minigraph series! Minigraphs are REFable even though they are half the word count of a monograph. Details in the link below. Send abstracts/queries to networkmultiplay@gmail.com

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Games in the Zeitgeist Join us for our 'Games in the Zeitgeist' conference, where we explore and celebrate trends in gaming culture 2024!

Come join us for our special Games in the Zeitgeist Conference on Jan 28th. Papers on Zelda, Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate and more!

Tickets free. Register here:

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Games in the Zeitgeist Join us for our 'Games in the Zeitgeist' conference, where we explore and celebrate trends in gaming culture 2024!

The Games in the Zeitgeist Conference (@multiplaynetwork.bsky.social) will explore and celebrate trends in gaming culture in 2024 - sign up!!

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