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.
Category: events
seminars, conferences, other events
Nokia Pervasive Games seminar
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…
Eduskunta presentation slides
Since the seminar materials were not distributed except as paper copies, I uploaded my slides into Slideshare:
Eduskunta on Games and Social Media
Today I will be speaking in an interesting seminar organised by Eduskunta (the Finnish Parliament) in Helsinki. You can follow the direct video stream live right now here: http://www.goodmoodtv.com/internettv/application/eduskunta/system/metadata/Eduskunta.html
And there is also a Jaiku channel here: http://jaiku.com/channel/seminaarikannu
More on Tulevaisuusvaliokunta (the Committee for the Future): http://web.eduskunta.fi/Resource.phx/valiokunnat/valiokunta-tuv01/index.htx
And more on the seminar: http://web.eduskunta.fi/Resource.phx/valiokunnat/valiokunta-tuv01/tietoyhteiskuntaakatemia.htx
Speaking in November
My present list of speaking engagements in November includes at least these:
- Power of computer games and empowerment in digital play (Tietokonepelien voima ja peleissä voimaantuminen), Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, yhteisistunto, Nov. 10th, Säätytalo, Helsinki;
- The many faces of casual gaming: knowledge about today’s players (Casual-pelaamisen monet kasvot: tietoa nykypäivän pelaajista), Sanoma Entertainment, tiedotustilaisuus Nov. 18th, Helsinki;
- Playfullness in social media – sociability in games (Pelillisyys sosiaalisessa mediassa – sosiaalisuus peleissä), IADE-luento, Nov. 19th, Taik, Finland;
- Case digital games – Is the knowledge society on the way towards the ludic society? (Case digitaaliset pelit – onko tietoyhteiskunta matkalla kohti peliyhteiskuntaa?), The Finnish Parliament, Committee for the Future / Eduskunta, Tulevaisuusvaliokunta, Nov. 20th, The Information Society Academy/Tietoyhteiskunta-akatemia.
See you around, in some of those!
IR9.0 paper online: towards contextual gaming
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!
IR9.0
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
Social Gaming panel (MindTrek)
As my most probably final note, I think that this years’ MindTrek conference was actually pretty successful and managed to provide a nice balance of research/scholarship and practical/industry related presentations so that most did find at least something of interest. Here is my final photo, taken from the note I scribbled during the panel talk in session Social Gaming, chaired by Olli Sotamaa. It was fun and inspiring discussion — thanks all!
Playing together, business panel
Continuing my blog stream from MindTrek: I went to listen to the “Business of Playing Together” session with Ville Mujunen, Joakim Achrén and Jussi Laakkonen (chaired by Peter Vesterbacka). I made some notes during Jussi’s talk:
Blizzard/Vivendi made 517 million in profit in 2007 from WoW. On the other hand, it will cost 50 million dollars to make a MMO. Facebook games are already making million dollars per year in revenue (e.g. Friends for Sale, MobWars). Introducing concept ‘FunWare’; providing games-like interaction for non-game applications.
Marc Davis in MindTrek
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.
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