Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin
@astridensslin.bsky.social
Professor for the Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at University of Regensburg
Great to see "folk mechanics" catching on as an inspiration for game development! Thanks, Sebastian Richter, for the pic taken at CEEGS 2025. Can't wait to see and play a game inspired by Hungarian folklore and cultural heritage, developed by Barnabás Springer and Pietro Noceti (UMalta).
September 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Great to see "folk mechanics" catching on as an inspiration for game development! Thanks, Sebastian Richter, for the pic taken at CEEGS 2025. Can't wait to see and play a game inspired by Hungarian folklore and cultural heritage, developed by Barnabás Springer and Pietro Noceti (UMalta).
The website of the DFG Network "Knowledges of Digital Literature" (Das Wissen der digitalen Literatur) is now live. Updates will follow. digitale-burg.de/studio/das-w... @eliterature.bsky.social
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June 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The website of the DFG Network "Knowledges of Digital Literature" (Das Wissen der digitalen Literatur) is now live. Updates will follow. digitale-burg.de/studio/das-w... @eliterature.bsky.social
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📣New publication: “The Name of the Reader”
Constructing the Bookish Player in Pentiment
A collaborative effort in the fullest sense, with @astridensslin.bsky.social, Simone Blessing, Sebastian R. Richter, Fiona S. Schönberg
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Constructing the Bookish Player in Pentiment
A collaborative effort in the fullest sense, with @astridensslin.bsky.social, Simone Blessing, Sebastian R. Richter, Fiona S. Schönberg
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
“The Name of the Reader” | 10 | Constructing the Bookish Player in Pen
In this chapter, we explore how Pentiment (2022) serves as an example of a metareferential medium par excellence by remediating the paradigm shift from medieval
www.taylorfrancis.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:43 AM
📣New publication: “The Name of the Reader”
Constructing the Bookish Player in Pentiment
A collaborative effort in the fullest sense, with @astridensslin.bsky.social, Simone Blessing, Sebastian R. Richter, Fiona S. Schönberg
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Constructing the Bookish Player in Pentiment
A collaborative effort in the fullest sense, with @astridensslin.bsky.social, Simone Blessing, Sebastian R. Richter, Fiona S. Schönberg
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
@URegensburg students: We're hiring a pre-doc RA (SHK) for Equal Opportunities:
www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet/stellenausschreibungen/hilfskraefte/index.html
www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet/stellenausschreibungen/hilfskraefte/index.html
April 7, 2025 at 5:59 PM
@URegensburg students: We're hiring a pre-doc RA (SHK) for Equal Opportunities:
www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet/stellenausschreibungen/hilfskraefte/index.html
www.uni-regensburg.de/universitaet/stellenausschreibungen/hilfskraefte/index.html
I couldn't agree more, and recent narrative games like Disco Elysium and Pentiment have shown a similarly vast cast of rounded characters, set in paradigm-shifting times and fraught societal environments.
Perhaps the strongest argument for Great Expectations as evidence of Dickens’ potential as a videogame writer are its multiple endings.
Why Charles Dickens would have made Great Expectations a videogame if he were writing today
Perhaps the strongest argument for Great Expectations as evidence of Dickens’ potential as a videogame writer are its multiple endings.
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February 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I couldn't agree more, and recent narrative games like Disco Elysium and Pentiment have shown a similarly vast cast of rounded characters, set in paradigm-shifting times and fraught societal environments.
Just released in our DAS|LAB video series: Sonia Fizek's "Videogames as Folkworlds" talk on "Materiality of Digitality: The Politics and Ethics of Making Videogames", addressing questions and dilemmas of green game design and production. @uniregensburg.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB5e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB5e...
Sonia Fizek - Materiality of Digitality. The Politics and Ethics of Making Videogames
YouTube video by DASLAB
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February 24, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Just released in our DAS|LAB video series: Sonia Fizek's "Videogames as Folkworlds" talk on "Materiality of Digitality: The Politics and Ethics of Making Videogames", addressing questions and dilemmas of green game design and production. @uniregensburg.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB5e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB5e...
This special issue explores the transformative potential of games, spanning analogue and digital forms and showcasing new perspectives on how games and play can be used for personal and existential development through transformative experiences.
www.gamejournal.it/g-a-m-e-issu...
www.gamejournal.it/g-a-m-e-issu...
G|A|M|E Issue 12, 2024 – Transformative Games « G|A|M|E
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February 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
This special issue explores the transformative potential of games, spanning analogue and digital forms and showcasing new perspectives on how games and play can be used for personal and existential development through transformative experiences.
www.gamejournal.it/g-a-m-e-issu...
www.gamejournal.it/g-a-m-e-issu...
After a lengthy but productive/creative break, we're happy to announce the release of the latest DAS|LAB video in the "Videogames as Folkworlds" series: Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang's talk on "Decolonizing Sweave: African Tradition and Alternative Cultural Pedagogies".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv4E...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv4E...
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang - Decolonizing Sweave: African Tradition and Alternative Cultural Pedagogies
YouTube video by DASLAB
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January 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
After a lengthy but productive/creative break, we're happy to announce the release of the latest DAS|LAB video in the "Videogames as Folkworlds" series: Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang's talk on "Decolonizing Sweave: African Tradition and Alternative Cultural Pedagogies".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv4E...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv4E...
Just a reminder that the deadline for this RA position in my lab is immediately forthcoming!
January 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Just a reminder that the deadline for this RA position in my lab is immediately forthcoming!
Come and work with me and my team at DIMAS! We're advertising for a research associate to join an international team of interdisciplinary researchers on the DFG/AHRC "Project StoryMachine: Exploring Implications of Recommender Based Spatial Hypertext Systems for Folklore and the Humanities".
December 19, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Come and work with me and my team at DIMAS! We're advertising for a research associate to join an international team of interdisciplinary researchers on the DFG/AHRC "Project StoryMachine: Exploring Implications of Recommender Based Spatial Hypertext Systems for Folklore and the Humanities".
Folkore is in the air, folks! This project by our DFG/AHRC "Project StoryMachine" Co-PIs Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook just got serious AHRC funding to conduct contemporary folklore research in the UK. Huge congrats! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
Robin Hood, morris dances and UFOs: English folklore survey gets post-Brexit reboot
A fresh look at cultural identity will follow outline of 60-year-old Survey of Language and Folklore, conducted by two academics driving a red Mini
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Folkore is in the air, folks! This project by our DFG/AHRC "Project StoryMachine" Co-PIs Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook just got serious AHRC funding to conduct contemporary folklore research in the UK. Huge congrats! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
It's official: Our "Project StoryMachine" is one of 16 projects funded by the DFG/AHRC (German/UK) bilateral grant programme! More info / press releases to come soon! www.dfg.de/en/news/news... @eliterature.bsky.social
UK-German Research Projects in the Arts and Humanities
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November 27, 2024 at 9:37 AM
It's official: Our "Project StoryMachine" is one of 16 projects funded by the DFG/AHRC (German/UK) bilateral grant programme! More info / press releases to come soon! www.dfg.de/en/news/news... @eliterature.bsky.social
Big congrats to Brian McHale – 2025 winner of the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award! More than deserved!
November 12, 2024 at 6:51 AM
Big congrats to Brian McHale – 2025 winner of the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award! More than deserved!
Let's celebrate this wonderful new book! Tuesday, November 12, 4 pm UTC bit.ly/elo-salon
“Reading #Instapoetry is a timely and topical exploration of a new literary phenomenon, edited by JuEunhae Knox and James Mackay." www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-i...
“Reading #Instapoetry is a timely and topical exploration of a new literary phenomenon, edited by JuEunhae Knox and James Mackay." www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-i...
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November 3, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Let's celebrate this wonderful new book! Tuesday, November 12, 4 pm UTC bit.ly/elo-salon
“Reading #Instapoetry is a timely and topical exploration of a new literary phenomenon, edited by JuEunhae Knox and James Mackay." www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-i...
“Reading #Instapoetry is a timely and topical exploration of a new literary phenomenon, edited by JuEunhae Knox and James Mackay." www.bloomsbury.com/us/reading-i...
In the second video of the URegensburg DAS|LAB's "Videogames as Folk Worlds" Symposium series, @domford.bsky.social talks about "A world to escape to: Gameworlds as otherworlds in datafied society". Here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hks...
Dom Ford - A world to escape to
YouTube video by DASLAB
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September 15, 2024 at 1:14 PM
In the second video of the URegensburg DAS|LAB's "Videogames as Folk Worlds" Symposium series, @domford.bsky.social talks about "A world to escape to: Gameworlds as otherworlds in datafied society". Here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hks...
Thrilled to announce the publication of DAS|LAB's first article on how Pentiment constructs the Bookish Player - this one's in German, but an English sibling is in the pipeline - at copy-edit stage. Watch this space!
mittelalter.hypotheses.org/32373
mittelalter.hypotheses.org/32373
Zur Konstruktion des „Bookish Players“ in ‚Pentiment‘
Zusammenfassung: In unserem Beitrag möchten wir das Videospiel ‚Pentiment‘ als metareferienzielles Medium par excellence darstellen. Das im fiktiv-oberbayerischen Tassing angesiedelte Point-and-Click-...
mittelalter.hypotheses.org
September 12, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Thrilled to announce the publication of DAS|LAB's first article on how Pentiment constructs the Bookish Player - this one's in German, but an English sibling is in the pipeline - at copy-edit stage. Watch this space!
mittelalter.hypotheses.org/32373
mittelalter.hypotheses.org/32373
The video of the talk I gave at the "Videogames as Folkworlds" Symposium in April, on "Folk Mechanic as Transregional Anthropocene Criticism in Indigenous Video Games" is now online. daslab-ur.de/folkmechanics/
FolkMechanics – DAS|LAB
daslab-ur.de
September 5, 2024 at 9:15 AM
The video of the talk I gave at the "Videogames as Folkworlds" Symposium in April, on "Folk Mechanic as Transregional Anthropocene Criticism in Indigenous Video Games" is now online. daslab-ur.de/folkmechanics/
Here's a snapshot of the Obsidian creative digital writing environment workshop Christine Wilks and I just led (mostly Christine, actually) at #ELO2024
July 19, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Here's a snapshot of the Obsidian creative digital writing environment workshop Christine Wilks and I just led (mostly Christine, actually) at #ELO2024
Such a great keynote. Lots of stuff to take away for our femtech research.
Edmond Chang keynote for ELO 2024 starts now! Code/Queer Games/ Technonormativity
@edmondchang.bsky.social
@edmondchang.bsky.social
July 19, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Such a great keynote. Lots of stuff to take away for our femtech research.
Reposted by Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin
Edmond Chang keynote for ELO 2024 starts now! Code/Queer Games/ Technonormativity
@edmondchang.bsky.social
@edmondchang.bsky.social
July 19, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Edmond Chang keynote for ELO 2024 starts now! Code/Queer Games/ Technonormativity
@edmondchang.bsky.social
@edmondchang.bsky.social
Listening to Chris Klimas' keynote at the ELO 2024 Online conference. Great quote by Inform maker Graham Nelson: "An adventure game is a crossword at war with a narrative". Very true. I should have quoted him much sooner. #ELO2024
July 18, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Listening to Chris Klimas' keynote at the ELO 2024 Online conference. Great quote by Inform maker Graham Nelson: "An adventure game is a crossword at war with a narrative". Very true. I should have quoted him much sooner. #ELO2024
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Register for ELO 2024 the online conference by July 8. No additional costs! Just join ELO or renew your membership, and you will get access to all the content!
stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/
stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/
ELO (un)linked 2024 | University of Central Florida
The 2024 iteration of the Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Media Arts Festival (ELO), hosted fully online July 18-21, 2024.
stars.library.ucf.edu
July 6, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Register for ELO 2024 the online conference by July 8. No additional costs! Just join ELO or renew your membership, and you will get access to all the content!
stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/
stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/
Reposted by Prof. Dr. Astrid Ensslin
Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to join the hypertext research community at the 1st #ACM #Hypertext #SummerSchool. Deadline extended to 14 June 2024! Funding available! Hypertext scholars, please share this with your #PhD or #Master students.
→ ht.acm.org/ht2024/works...
→ ht.acm.org/ht2024/works...
INTR/HT Summer School – ACM Hypertext & Social Media 2024
ht.acm.org
June 6, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to join the hypertext research community at the 1st #ACM #Hypertext #SummerSchool. Deadline extended to 14 June 2024! Funding available! Hypertext scholars, please share this with your #PhD or #Master students.
→ ht.acm.org/ht2024/works...
→ ht.acm.org/ht2024/works...
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I had a great time in Regensburg visiting the DAS|LAB in the past two days but I always forget to take pics during trips! I do have a photo from @astridensslin.bsky.social's inspiring lecture yesterday about (de)colonial mechanics and cartography in games, though. 🗺️
May 23, 2024 at 12:31 PM
I had a great time in Regensburg visiting the DAS|LAB in the past two days but I always forget to take pics during trips! I do have a photo from @astridensslin.bsky.social's inspiring lecture yesterday about (de)colonial mechanics and cartography in games, though. 🗺️
Brilliant news: Christine Wilks' digital fiction for body image narrative therapy, Voices, has been shortlisted for the Chris Meade Main Prize and Social Good categories the New Media Writing Prize. writing-new-bodies.web.app/home Please vote here: newmediawritingprize.co.uk/opening-up-2...
WnbVoices
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May 13, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Brilliant news: Christine Wilks' digital fiction for body image narrative therapy, Voices, has been shortlisted for the Chris Meade Main Prize and Social Good categories the New Media Writing Prize. writing-new-bodies.web.app/home Please vote here: newmediawritingprize.co.uk/opening-up-2...