Thursday, October 2, 2008

MedieKultur Call for Papers: Online worlds as media and communication format

Call for Papers received from Bjarke Liboriusson, via Ole Ertloev Hansen of the Nordic Game Research Network (NGRN)

The Call is for an online media and communication studies journal based in Denmark: 

MedieKultur

Bjarke is a member of the editorial team for the journal.

For more information see the publication website:

[http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/]

MedieKultur is peer reviewed, and articles can be submitted directly via the website.

Patrick

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Call for papers: Online worlds as media and communication format

[http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/announcement/view/25]

Special issue. Guest editor: Kjetil Sandvik, University of Copenhagen

Submission deadline: February 1, 2009
Publication date: Fall 2009

Used for gaming and/or social networking, the avatar-navigated, 3D, Online World has emerged as a reasonably stable, digital medium. Accordingly, a number of academic perspectives have emerged, e.g., the ludological, sociological, economic, and narratological perspectives. The complex nature of the medium seem to invite a multi-disciplinary approach, or at least a multi-disciplinary openness on part of the media studies community. With this special issue on Online Worlds, we would like to take stock of the medium; the challenges it possess as an object of studies, and the possibilities it contains for furthering media and communications studies.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Online Worlds as a methodological challenge to media studies and/or communications studies.
• Online Worlds as a challenge to our concepts of communication, e.g. the avatar-based communication as online face-to-face communication
• Cross-media tendencies in Online Worlds: connecting worlds, facilitating new media-networks, integrating new media systems etc.
• The multi-player, multi-vocal, collaborative and play-centric media platform of Online Worlds as a challenge to strategic communication.

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