I have published online an author’s version of my IR9.0 paper: “Play in the Mobile Internet: Towards Contextual Gaming”. Paper presented in the Internet Research 9.0 conference, Copenhagen, October 15–18, 2008. Online: http://www.uta.fi/~frans.mayra/Mayra_Contextual_Gaming_IR9-0.pdf – All comments are most welcome, this is very much work in progress!
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Frans Mäyrä
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Professor of interactive media, digital culture and game studies in the University of Tampere, Finland. A fan of new media, old ideas, science fiction and fantasy.
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