Author Archives: Kelly Boudreau

It’s out – and they want full papers – due February 14th, 2007. Read below for more details. Papers and panel proposals are invited for the third Digital GamesResearch Association International Conference (DiGRA 2007) in Tokyo. Thetheme of this conference is “Situated Play.” Its goal is to shed lighton various kinds of situatedness of games.Continue reading “CFP: DiGRA 2007 – Tokyo”

There has been alot of discussion about the nature of the cyberspace. With it’s boundaries between public and private blurred, cyberspace – for some, is a city made of glass houses where curtains and blinds have yet to be invented. Indeed, some have locks on their doors, but more often than not, the peephole isContinue reading “And Speaking of Pictures”

In noticing the hypocrisy of my post speaking out against posting pictures online without individuals’ consent, I have removed the post including the link to pictures to the CGSA. It only made sense.

Within the field of game and digital studies, there has been much written about the marginalized role of girls (and women) in terms of both in the industry as well as players. Much of the current research if you were to google “girls + games” and “girl + gamers” in google scholar, you would seeContinue reading “Girl Gamers and the Bigger Picture”

The first morning of the CGSA has passed, and I have been trying to keep notes. I have been doing so over at http://www.gamecode.ca/blog if you couldn’t attend but want to see what’s going on.

I leave tomorrow for Toronto, to attend an inaugral workshop/conference for the Canadian Game Studies Association. An association still in development, it is supposed to be a government funded opportunity to meet other scholars across our nation and see what the others are up to in terms of studying video games. Here is a scheduleContinue reading “Heading to the CGSA”

As I head into writing my thesis – a project that I had been working towards for the last almost 4 years now, what seemed to be a relatively easy task (i mean, this is what i have been working towards over the years, with every paper and every project) has now turned into aContinue reading “The Role of the Avatar”

Today was the last day for WOXY’s broadcast. As I sit here listening to the sound of nothingness through my speakers, I am saddened. WOXY has not only entertained me during my late nights of academic toil it, introduced me to a wealth of new music that I had lost much faith in. For manyContinue reading “The Sound of Silence”

A good friend of mine is currently in Toronto for the International Film Festival. She is a writer and has been blogging the ‘real’ event for a local print magazine here in Montreal. You can read her insights , here, here and here. After all the Entertainment Tonight, Star Daily and other deadly serious entertainementContinue reading “Reporting the Real Deal”

I logged into to listen to my favorite internet (once terrestial) radio station WOXY.com to see the letter of doom posted on their front page. Although it was not a surprise – listeners knew that the days of great music and rockin’ dj’s were numbered do to the refusal to turn to corporate funding –Continue reading “A Sad Day for Independent Music”