digital cultures, digital lifestyles – you name it
This is a Finnish degree programme, so in Finnish:
Tervetuloa hakemaan hypermediaan syventäviin maisteriopintoihin, pääaineena informaatiotutkimus, hakuaika 2.2.-27.2.09. Lisätietoja ja linkki hakulomakkeeseen on tarjolla täällä: http://www.uta.fi/hyper/uutinen.php?item=31062
Another excellent example of the expanding field of old-media — new media synergy, and art of storytelling making use of the new opportunities of Internet video: Neil Gaiman putting online his reading of the entire new young readers’ novel (whoever and whatever age we, those readers, indeed are) The Graveyard Book. Go to: http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx
Edit: this appears to be the note number 600 of my blog, by the way. Cheers!
This night, I was enjoying a virtual trip to Africa (not the tourist park, but the real slums of Nairobi, where people live), courtesy of Nokia, who have set their Social Media Communications team to explore the social life in Sub-Saharan Africa. Jussi Impiö here explains the music project (more from the NRC YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/NokiaConversations):
I have found the mobile location and navigation utilities genuinely useful in several occasions lately, and have been following with interest the release of new, 3.0 version of Nokia Maps. The possibility to have certain landmark buildings as 3D objects in the maps sounds something that should make it more intuitive to place yourself in the real environment. Also, the synchronisation of favorites between a PC version (Maps in OVI service) and the mobile handset one makes it much easier to plan your routes beforehand on the proper PC keyboard, and then utilise those points of interest later, on the road. I was disappointed, however, to find out that currently Maps 3.0 is only available to the very limited number of S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 devices, and e.g. my N95 8GB model is not supported (it belongs to the S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 category). But they at least promise a quick release with more supported devices, lets see how fast that will be. More: http://www.nokia.com/betalabs/maps
I will be continuing public lectures/presentations also after this week’s marathon (albeit after a break). Here is one tip: I will be talking about money gaming/gambling as a part of games cultures in Tieteen Päivät event in Helsinki in Sunday, January 11, 2009. More here: http://www.tieteenpaivat.fi/su09.html.
Today, the final Helsinki trip and seminar of the week: Pervasive Games seminar, run by our IPerG collaborator Nokia Research Center (and some of our own previous and ex-researchers, like Markus Montola, pictured). Time to lean back and enjoy listening other people doing the speaking, for a change. Pity that we have now flu in our family, and I am a bit worried how Laura and Luka will manage back home today…
My present list of speaking engagements in November includes at least these:
See you around, in some of those!
Ok, Internet Reseach conference 9.0 in Copenhagen is now over, and I am back home, recovering (I am having one week holiday wiht my family, so no email for a while, yippee). The conference itself was informative and fun, and it was nice to experience this kind of mixture of game researchers with researchers of other aspects of the Internet. My own paper dealt with that very question: what does it mean for game studies that games mingle and mix more and more with other online media, and ‘playfulness’ becomes a mode that is allowed in multiple contexts, including work and education related ones. “Towards contextual gaming” was my tagline. Anyways, thanks to Lisbeth and all the other organisers, and all the speakers and participants for interesting three days! You can explore IR9 photos in Flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=ir9&m=tags
Today is the second day of MindTrek conference, and I am happy just to lean back, listen, and participate as an audience. This camera-photo is taken during the opening session, showing the chief scientist (Yahoo’s Connected Life) Marc Davis speaking about social media from a system oriented and ecosystem perspective.
The CFP for the next DiGRA conference is out — I am not sure if DiGRA site has this yet, but here is the text:
First Call for Papers
DiGRA 2009
Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory
Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom, Tuesday 1st September — Friday 4th September 2009
The South of Britain Consortium are pleased to announce the first Call for Papers for the Digital Games Research Association 2009. DiGRA is an organisation that embraces all aspects of game studies, and the conference aims to provide a diverse platform for discussion, and a lively forum for debate. We therefore welcome papers from any discipline focused on any aspect of games, play, game culture and the games industry. Continue reading “DiGRA 2009 CFP”
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