DiGRA UK 2017 Conference & Meeting
University of Salford, MediaCityUK, May 5th 2017
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The Digital Cluster is hosting the inaugural meeting and conference of DiGRAUK:
The Digital Games Research Association United Kingdom (DiGRA UK) announces the Call for Participation for the conference of the association, to be held 5th May, 2017, at the MediaCityUK in Salford, hosted by University of Salford. DiGRA UK 2017 will bring together game scholars and professionals working in the various area of digital games research from across the United Kingdom.
The conference welcomes submissions of papers, abstracts, doctoral consortia and panels on a wide range of topics associated with the study of digital games, players and game cultures.
The conference will also host an organisational meeting open to DiGRA members, where aims and self-management of the UK chapter will be discussed among those who are willing to volunteer. This will include the election of the new board of the national chapter.
For further information, please contact Dr Paolo Ruffino (contact@paoloruffino.com) or Dr Esther MacCallum-Stewart (neveah@gmail.com).
To participate, please register at here
Submission and selection procedure
DiGRA UK welcomes submissions on a wide range of topics, including:
- Game cultures
- Games and other cultural forms
- Communication in game worlds
- Gender and games
- Games as representation
- Minority groups and games
- Games and childhood
- The games industry
- Independent games
- Games criticism
- Gaming in non-leisure settings
- Game studies in other domains
- Hybrid and non-digital games
- History of games
- Game design
- eSports and spectatorship
- Platform studies
- Game production studies
- Analog games
Please send your submissions to: digrauk@gmail.com
Full papers will be peer reviewed. Abstracts, panels and any other activity proposed for the conference will be evaluated by the conference organising committee (Dr Paolo Ruffino, Prof. Garry Crawford and Dr Esther MacCallum-Stewart). Please note that in the future the selection process will be moderated by the elected board.
Full Papers should be no longer than 16 pages, and will be presented in 20 minutes.
Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words, and will be presented in max. 10 minutes.
Panel proposals should be no longer than 500 words, and will have a duration of 50 minutes.
We welcome contributions from participants who are not associated with academic institutions as long as their proposal is relevant to game studies.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 5 March 2017
Acceptance/rejection notification: 26 March 2017
Conference: 5 May 2017