Tomorrow our editor in-chief Prof. Dr. Lissa Holloway-Attaway will present her research results on "Making Kinship and Playing Dead: 
Death, Grief, Mourning, and ‘Passing on‘ in Video Game Culture(s)" at the ZeMKI. 📆

Our Last keynote today by Alenda Y. Chang on “On the Sustainability of Games and Play“ it was an inspiring conference. #gamevironments

And two other papers and two other board member - Gregory Grieve and Stef Aupers. Check out their work! #gamevironments

Our Board member Xenia Zeiler and our Editor in Chief Lissa Holloway-Attaway presented each their work at the conference - interesting insights! 💡💡💡

Day 2 anniversary conference 📆 with a interesting Keynote on „Media and corporatization of everything“ by Nick Couldry - stay tuned!

First day of the conference comes to an end. Here we see our Board member Stef Aupers on "Paranoid futures": Conspiracy-theoretical boundary work across social media platforms“ #gamevironments

Todays Keynote by José van Dijck “How to achieve digital sovereignty in Europe?“ Important questions and more important answers looking at digital platforms and infrastructure, public values and actors and the EU government. #gamevironments

New day, new conference! Today we are at the ZeMKI anniversary conference “20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?” Listening here to the introduction by our editor in chief @radde-antweiler.bsky.social #gamevironments #conference

Thank you for the successful gamevironments Research day 25‘ - we all take with us an autumn full of new visions, developments and inspiring conversations thanks to all the experts and young researchers 💻📆 there are bright times ahead!

Other session, other topics like e.g. „What makes you move: Reimagining Community through playable diologues with LGBTQ+ Protestant Identities“

Current topics: “Revisiting Articulations of Immersion & Illusion: An Autoethnographic Study of MR Game Shattered“ and others… stay tuned for the next round!

Here we go! Starting our gamevironments Research Day 25‘💻📆 stay tuned!

Check out the program of our upcoming hybrid gamevironments Research Day‘25! 📆

Job advertisement: Research Associate (f/m/d) in the research focus Digital Gaming 💻📆 Check it out!

The gamevironments Research Day is in it‘s peak of preparation - we look forward to about 20 participants and their projects. Look out for the program release 💻📆

Die ZeMKI-Mitglieder Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf, Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger und Prof. Dr. zemki.uni-bremen.de/zemki-mitgli...

Another new special issue, "Peripheral Religions" (edited by Carolin Puckhaber, Aska Mayer and Knut V. M. Wormstädt), in Gamevironments journal, at journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...:

📯PUBLICATION NEWS📯 @amayer.bsky.social, Knut Wormstädt and I are happy to announce that our @gamevironments.bsky.social special issue Peripheral Religions and Games is officially out now! Here's the link, but we want to talk about every article and report for a minute: tinyurl.com/2txajt3m

Happy to share that our Special Issue for @gamevironments.bsky.social is out now! Check below for the link and a brief run-through of the authors and topics!

There's another very kind review of The Middle Ages in Computer Games out on @gamevironments.bsky.social from @markusmindrebo.bsky.social. There's also a bunch of important articles on peripheral religions in games in this issue which are well worth a look. doi.org/10.48783/gam...

We recently published a special issue on Peripheral Religions and Games, guest edited by @caroleinx.bsky.social, @amayer.bsky.social and Knut Wormstädt! Four brand new articles exploring the topic, one report, two reviews and, of course, an introduction.

It's less than 2 weeks to submit your abstract for and secure your spot in **Video Games and Our Futures** - we are looking forward! CfP gamevironments 2025 Research Day "Video Games and Our Futures" journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...

Deadline end of May, don't forget to submit!

Post-apocalyptic games provide one particularly popular 'gamevironment': board member @larsdewildt.bsky.social (and current CAPAS fellow) recommends the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studiess Call for Fellowships, deadline 13 May. t.co/Y2DWCfTNAn

Hi everyone, our board member Gia Coturri Sorenson has recommended this discussion on AI in games www.npr.org/transcripts/... Check it out!👌👌 #games #gamevironment #AI

Submit now: CfP for our next Special Issue "BEYOND PLAY: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF DIGITAL GAMING IN A DEEPLY MEDIATIZED SOCIETY" is out now! Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2025 journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga... #gamevironments #gaming #academics #cfp

For the University of Arkansas, our board member Vít Šisler gave a lecture on March 12 called "Gaming Language and Playing Kafka: Intercultural Education in the Ludic Century" in the World Languages & Digital Humanities Studio. Check out the report here news.uark.edu/articles/769...

Don't forget to submit for our Regular Issue 📲 submission deadline for peer-reviewed articles is the 15th June 2025 📤📝 journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...

Submit: CfP for our next Special Issue "BEYOND PLAY: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF DIGITAL GAMING IN A DEEPLY MEDIATIZED SOCIETY" is out now! Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2025 journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/game…📩✏️ #gamevironments #gaming #academics #cfp

🚀 UNCG Game Studies Conference: Liminality in Gaming! 🎮 Mark your calendar, Apr 5 '25, as UNCG’s Esports Arena hosts an exploration of liminality in gaming-the spaces of transition, uncertainty and transformation that shape how we play, create & experience games. Stay tuned!

Board: Our partners at UNC Greensboro's Network for the Cultural Study of Videogaming as been hosting the Jon Henner Memorial Accessibility in Games Speaker Series to highlight disability and accessibility in gaming. More information here: cas.uncg.edu/event/jon-he...

Booklist add by our Board Member Gia Coturri Sorenson Marijam Did's "Everything to Play For" - Enjoy!

Happy new Year everyone - new year, new inspiration! How about reading something about "Video Games Beyond Play. Decolonizing Gamevironments" by Christopher Helland out of our 10th anniversary issue? journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...

We are happy to announce that our 10th Anniversary Issue "Revisiting Gamevironments" is out now! 🥂🥂https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/issue/view/23

Do you need something to read on the holidays? How about something out of our current issue? Check it out.📲

A new documentary, recommended by our board member Lars de Wildt: "The blood on our controllers," by a group of established industry professionals, discusses the game industry's role in global conflict, and its representation of Arab communities in games. m.youtube.com/watch?v=g748...

A new book recommendation by our board member Gia Coturri Sorenson: "We the Gamers - How Games Teach Ethics and Civics" by Karen Schrier. Check it out! 📔 #gamevironments #gaming #studies

Our Board member Nicole Zhange wants to draw you attention to the chinese game Black Myth Wukong - here is something to read for all of you www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/... 📲

Our Board Member Vit Šisler is part of "Charles Games" who published the game "Velvet 89" - check it out now! 📷 store.steampowered.com/app/3133340/...

Another Article sneak peek out of our current issue - "Role-Playing Games in the Classroom. Highlighting Biases, Player Behaviours, and Ethical Decision-Making" by Christine Tomlinson - check it out! journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...

Gamevironments board member Xenia Zeiler and advisory board member Souvik Mukherjee in conversation with Indian game scholars and game designers in Kolkata on 17th Oct. A successful seminar on Pujo, Games and Culture organised by CSSSC (as part of the SERB-INAE project).

And to close the conference, the final keynote: Torill Elvira Mortensen!

Closing this panel is board member Christopher Helland, on postcolonialism and gamevironments

And now is board member Gregory Grieve on Gregory Bateson and how we know a gamevironments when we see one.

Lissa Holloway-Attaway now on Gendered Gamevironments!

Yesterday we enjoyed a lot of interesting panels. Board member Vit Sisler came to Bremen as the second keynote speaker! We look forward to today! #beyondplay24

Getting our hands dirty with some workshopping on gamevironments!

Day 2 of the „Beyond Play“-conference is starting with an intriguing paper on Chinese e-sports #beyondplay24

Day 2 of the @zemki.bsky.social Beyond Play conference kicks off, in this panel with Bodil Stelter on sexualisations of The Last of Us: Part II characters.

Registration is now happening - 1,5 hours left until the 1st Panel starts ⏳🎊 Stay tuned!