Author Archives: Kelly Boudreau

History of Games International Conference: working with, building, and telling history

Program is up and it looks great. June 21-23, 2013. Montreal, QC. Bad timing for me personally (daughter’s high school graduation and kazillion affiliated events start the 21st) but will do my best to get to as many panels as possible – at least it’s local!!  The International Conference on the History of Game is the firstContinue reading “History of Games International Conference: working with, building, and telling history”

This is Not a Review: My thoughts on Hayles’ “How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis”

Finished reading Hayles’ How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis about a week or so ago and overall, I have to say I really enjoyed it …  of course with a few “buts” in there for good measure. I really like Hayles’ writing style. I personally find it complex but not complicated. I findContinue reading “This is Not a Review: My thoughts on Hayles’ “How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis””

CfP – Vienna Games Conference – FROG13 “Context Matters”; 27-28 September 2013

The Call for Abstracts of the 7th Vienna Games Conference FROG13 (27-28 September, 2013) is out. Vienna’s annual Games Conference offers an open international platform for leading game studies researchers and scholars, game designers, researchers and scholars from various other fields, education professionals, and gamers from around the world. The topic of the FROG13 is “Context Matters” andContinue reading “CfP – Vienna Games Conference – FROG13 “Context Matters”; 27-28 September 2013″

The Serendipitous Pleasure of Cable Television

So many of my friends have abandoned cable television (or satellite) for view-on-demand platforms like Netflix or Hulu (if you are lucky enough to live in the US). I admit to having enjoyed the convenience of Netflix (even if there offerings here in Canada are quite dated), I cannot argue with the pleasure of being ableContinue reading “The Serendipitous Pleasure of Cable Television”

RPG: Research. Play. Games. An Open Talk @ UNB Fredericton

I am giving an open talk tomorrow at my old academic stomping grounds tomorrow. If you are in the area, drop by! RPG: Research. Play. Games. Adventure and Methods in Digital Game Research Fredericton, NB – The Media Arts & Cultures program and the Dept of Culture and Language Studies at the University of New BrunswickContinue reading “RPG: Research. Play. Games. An Open Talk @ UNB Fredericton”

CFP: Geemu and media mix: theoretical approaches of Japanese video games

Geemu and media mix: theoretical approaches of Japanese video games Edited by Martin Picard and Jérémie Pelletier-Gagnon http://www.kinephanos.ca/2012/geemu-media-mix/ Kinephanos is a bilingual web-based academic journal. Focusing on questions involving cinema and popular media, Kinephanos encourages interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. The journal’s primary interests are movies and popular TV series, video games, emerging technologies and fan cultures. The preferred approaches includeContinue reading “CFP: Geemu and media mix: theoretical approaches of Japanese video games”

CFP: Bridging the Real and the Virtual

may seem ‘done’ already – but could be interesting =)   call for papers for the European Group for Organisational Studies Colloqiuim to be held in Montréal next July. Conference link is here:http://www.egosnet.org/2013_montreal/general_theme 29th EGOS Colloquium  Montréal, Canada   July 4–6, 2013 Bridging Continents,  Cultures and Worldviews Sub-theme 55: Bridging the Real and the VirtualContinue reading “CFP: Bridging the Real and the Virtual”

CFP: The History of Games International Conference

The History of Games International Conference 1st edition: Working With, Building, and Telling History Montreal, Canada. June 21st – 23rd 2013 Deadline for proposals: December 15th 2012. In spite of the strong wake of game studies in the last decade, the history of video and computer games is still in its infancy in the academic world.Continue reading “CFP: The History of Games International Conference”

Playing Facebook Games with Family Research Looking for Respondents

We are looking for a few more people to interview about playing facebook games with their family (skype, email., etc). If you are interested and have 25-45 minutes to spare, or you know someone who might be interested, please send me a message to: facebookresearch2012 [at] gmail [dot] com Thank you!! For more information aboutContinue reading “Playing Facebook Games with Family Research Looking for Respondents”