Dom Ford
@domford.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, studying NPCs with AI-generated dialogue.
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Dom Ford
@domford.bsky.social
· Apr 22
Mytholudics
Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approac...
doi.org
📖My book is out!
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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Come work with us! We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers working in cultural game studies from the beginning of 2026 until the end of 2027. Read more and apply by 31.10.2025 (at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2):
3 Postdoctoral Researchers (cultural game studies) / 3 tutkijatohtoria (kulttuurinen pelitutkimus)
tuni.rekrytointi.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Come work with us! We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers working in cultural game studies from the beginning of 2026 until the end of 2027. Read more and apply by 31.10.2025 (at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2):
Creating AI avatars of dead people needs to become an absolute societal taboo.
When a journalist uses AI to interview a dead child, isn’t it time to ask what the boundaries should be? | Gaby Hinsliff
Joaquin Oliver was 17 years old when he was shot in the hallway of his high school. An older teenager, expelled some months previously, had opened fire with a high-powered rifle…
Joaquin Oliver was 17 years old when he was shot in the hallway of his high school. An older teenager, expelled some months previously, had opened fire with a high-powered rifle…
When a journalist uses AI to interview a dead child, isn’t it time to ask what the boundaries should be? | Gaby Hinsliff
Joaquin Oliver was 17 years old when he was shot in the hallway of his high school. An older teenager, expelled some months previously, had opened fire with a high-powered rifle on Valentine’s Day in what became America’s deadliest high school shooting. Seven years on, Joaquin says he thinks it’s important to talk about what happened on that day in Parkland, Florida, “so that we can create a safer future for everyone”. But sadly, what happened to Joaquin that day is that he died. The oddly metallic voice speaking to the ex-CNN journalist Jim Acosta…
n24usa.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Creating AI avatars of dead people needs to become an absolute societal taboo.
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📯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
@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
No. #22 (2025): Special Issue "Peripheral Religions"
| gamevironments
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August 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
📯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
@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
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Smart and delightful book, equally enjoyable @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview. @domford.bsky.social Mytholudics: Games and Myth @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
#GameTheory#Folklore #Myth #PopularCulture
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
#GameTheory#Folklore #Myth #PopularCulture
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
August 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Smart and delightful book, equally enjoyable @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview. @domford.bsky.social Mytholudics: Games and Myth @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
#GameTheory#Folklore #Myth #PopularCulture
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
#GameTheory#Folklore #Myth #PopularCulture
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
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My first paper, "Fictional Videogames as Framing Devices: Suicide Communication in MMOs," is out now on Eludamos.
In the paper, I argue that the use of fictional MMOs as framing devices serves as a reflexive narrative tool that suggests MMOs as spaces with their own internal rules of communication.
In the paper, I argue that the use of fictional MMOs as framing devices serves as a reflexive narrative tool that suggests MMOs as spaces with their own internal rules of communication.
Fictional videogames as framing devices: Suicide communication in MMOs
| Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
eludamos.org
June 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My first paper, "Fictional Videogames as Framing Devices: Suicide Communication in MMOs," is out now on Eludamos.
In the paper, I argue that the use of fictional MMOs as framing devices serves as a reflexive narrative tool that suggests MMOs as spaces with their own internal rules of communication.
In the paper, I argue that the use of fictional MMOs as framing devices serves as a reflexive narrative tool that suggests MMOs as spaces with their own internal rules of communication.
Recently, I was interviewed about my book for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social by @janalena.bsky.social! If you want to hear me talk about games and myth for about an hour, please check it out.
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
Dom Ford, "Mytholudics: Games and Myth" (de Gruyter, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Recently, I was interviewed about my book for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social by @janalena.bsky.social! If you want to hear me talk about games and myth for about an hour, please check it out.
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
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The future dystopian Rome of Lucio Fulci's Warriors of the Year 2072 (1984). My paper on the film's use of the gladiatorial combat trope has just been published in @gua-le-ni.com @domford.bsky.social and Riccardo Fassone's special issue of Eludamos on fictional games. eludamos.org/index.php/el...
July 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The future dystopian Rome of Lucio Fulci's Warriors of the Year 2072 (1984). My paper on the film's use of the gladiatorial combat trope has just been published in @gua-le-ni.com @domford.bsky.social and Riccardo Fassone's special issue of Eludamos on fictional games. eludamos.org/index.php/el...
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Very happy to announce that next week, I'll be joining the University of Zürich as part of the URPP Digital Religion(s), working on the project "Synthetic Realities. Generative AI and Digital Visual Literacy" alongside @bildoperationen.bsky.social. Exciting!!
July 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Very happy to announce that next week, I'll be joining the University of Zürich as part of the URPP Digital Religion(s), working on the project "Synthetic Realities. Generative AI and Digital Visual Literacy" alongside @bildoperationen.bsky.social. Exciting!!
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Are you a man, at least 15 years old and either Finnish or living in Finland?
Do you participate in game culture by e.g. playing video games, RPGs or miniature games, watching videos or through activities like cosplay?
Take the questionnaire in Finnish or English at bit.ly/pelikulttuuri
Do you participate in game culture by e.g. playing video games, RPGs or miniature games, watching videos or through activities like cosplay?
Take the questionnaire in Finnish or English at bit.ly/pelikulttuuri
June 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Are you a man, at least 15 years old and either Finnish or living in Finland?
Do you participate in game culture by e.g. playing video games, RPGs or miniature games, watching videos or through activities like cosplay?
Take the questionnaire in Finnish or English at bit.ly/pelikulttuuri
Do you participate in game culture by e.g. playing video games, RPGs or miniature games, watching videos or through activities like cosplay?
Take the questionnaire in Finnish or English at bit.ly/pelikulttuuri
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Hey, thanks for using this legal e-reader to access an academic book through your uni library instead of just grabbing the pdf on libgen. Here's a sloppy AI summary of the book. We've defaulted your view to an epub without page numbers but feel free to reload the whole page if you want to change it.
June 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Hey, thanks for using this legal e-reader to access an academic book through your uni library instead of just grabbing the pdf on libgen. Here's a sloppy AI summary of the book. We've defaulted your view to an epub without page numbers but feel free to reload the whole page if you want to change it.
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👩🍳 𝐂𝐅𝐏: 𝐂𝐇Æ𝐅 - 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 & 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝
Want to talk about your favourite dish or latest culinary faux pas? 🍕🍍 Or reflect on how food is represented in art? 🍰
Submit an idea by 6 June and join us in Tilburg in August!
👉More info: nelevandemosselaer.wordpress.com/chaef-cultur...
Want to talk about your favourite dish or latest culinary faux pas? 🍕🍍 Or reflect on how food is represented in art? 🍰
Submit an idea by 6 June and join us in Tilburg in August!
👉More info: nelevandemosselaer.wordpress.com/chaef-cultur...
May 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
👩🍳 𝐂𝐅𝐏: 𝐂𝐇Æ𝐅 - 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 & 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝
Want to talk about your favourite dish or latest culinary faux pas? 🍕🍍 Or reflect on how food is represented in art? 🍰
Submit an idea by 6 June and join us in Tilburg in August!
👉More info: nelevandemosselaer.wordpress.com/chaef-cultur...
Want to talk about your favourite dish or latest culinary faux pas? 🍕🍍 Or reflect on how food is represented in art? 🍰
Submit an idea by 6 June and join us in Tilburg in August!
👉More info: nelevandemosselaer.wordpress.com/chaef-cultur...
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Neuer Lesestoff für derzeit zu kalt Abende. @johannesfranzen.bsky.social @domford.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Neuer Lesestoff für derzeit zu kalt Abende. @johannesfranzen.bsky.social @domford.bsky.social
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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
Calls for Papers
| gamevironments
https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/openquests…📩📷
April 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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
Having taken a quick look at the demo document, this seems much more like a Notion alternative than a Google Docs alternative. No font selection, set formatting, etc. etc. That's cool - I'm looking for a Notion alternative - but I'm desperate for Google Docs to die too.
The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration.
We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs
The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...
www.techspot.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Having taken a quick look at the demo document, this seems much more like a Notion alternative than a Google Docs alternative. No font selection, set formatting, etc. etc. That's cool - I'm looking for a Notion alternative - but I'm desperate for Google Docs to die too.
If you want me to give a talk, do an interview, be on a podcast or anything like that to do with the book, please get in touch (:
📖My book is out!
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Mytholudics
Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approac...
doi.org
April 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
If you want me to give a talk, do an interview, be on a podcast or anything like that to do with the book, please get in touch (:
I recently finished reading this and it's a straight banger. Plus, the book is beautiful and small - it fits in a large pocket, so it's perfect for taking on the bus. It even comes with its own bookmark!!!!!! But seriously, this is an excellent novel.
'What We Owe the Dead' is the title of my new #scifi novel.
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
April 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I recently finished reading this and it's a straight banger. Plus, the book is beautiful and small - it fits in a large pocket, so it's perfect for taking on the bus. It even comes with its own bookmark!!!!!! But seriously, this is an excellent novel.
Reposted by Dom Ford
'What We Owe the Dead' is the title of my new #scifi novel.
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
April 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
'What We Owe the Dead' is the title of my new #scifi novel.
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
📖My book is out!
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Mytholudics
Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approac...
doi.org
April 22, 2025 at 9:49 AM
📖My book is out!
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
I thought we were past pretending that articles just popped into existence out of nowhere, written by no one. That reads far more "oddly" to me.
April 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I thought we were past pretending that articles just popped into existence out of nowhere, written by no one. That reads far more "oddly" to me.
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There is still time to submit a proposal to the CFP for Otherworldly Entertainment (details found via link below). The deadline is 31 March 2025. It is sure to be an incredible event with two amazing keynotes: @enwright.bsky.social & @kirstinmills.bsky.social Best of all, you get to visit Copenhagen
🚨CFP REMINDER: Do you like #horror, #gothic, #occult and #videogames?
The Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is hosting a 3-day conference btwn 13-15 Aug 2025. The CFP is open and we have some bursaries available. Please share!
Details 👇
engerom.ku.dk/english/rese...
The Dark Arts Research Group at the Univ. of Copenhagen is hosting a 3-day conference btwn 13-15 Aug 2025. The CFP is open and we have some bursaries available. Please share!
Details 👇
engerom.ku.dk/english/rese...
a boy is sitting in front of a television playing mario bros
ALT: a boy is sitting in front of a television playing mario bros
media.tenor.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
There is still time to submit a proposal to the CFP for Otherworldly Entertainment (details found via link below). The deadline is 31 March 2025. It is sure to be an incredible event with two amazing keynotes: @enwright.bsky.social & @kirstinmills.bsky.social Best of all, you get to visit Copenhagen
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ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was interviewed by the Austrian public radio station FM4 on the topic of “Right-wing extremism and games culture”. The interview can be accessed here.
zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/kathrin-t...
zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/kathrin-t...
March 13, 2025 at 9:43 AM
ZeMKI member Dr. Kathrin Trattner was interviewed by the Austrian public radio station FM4 on the topic of “Right-wing extremism and games culture”. The interview can be accessed here.
zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/kathrin-t...
zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/kathrin-t...
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Ich hatte sehr viel Spaß mit @jensnotroff.com, Cedric und Marian bei @artede.bsky.social #Couchwissen zu #CivVII. Geschichtsbilder in Tech Trees, Segeln ohne Navigation und vieles, vieles mehr. Danke an alle, die mitgewirkt haben und dabei waren!
Der Abend ist noch jung, also sagt nicht, dass Ihr jetzt keinen Bock auf 'nen 3 Stunden #CivVII Stream bei @artede.bsky.social #Couchwissen habt - kompetent kommentiert und wissenschaftlich fundiert eingeordnet von @kathrintrattner.bsky.social und yours truly. 😉🏺
▶️ www.twitch.tv/videos/23986...
▶️ www.twitch.tv/videos/23986...
March 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Ich hatte sehr viel Spaß mit @jensnotroff.com, Cedric und Marian bei @artede.bsky.social #Couchwissen zu #CivVII. Geschichtsbilder in Tech Trees, Segeln ohne Navigation und vieles, vieles mehr. Danke an alle, die mitgewirkt haben und dabei waren!
Stefano has already shown his fiction chops with The Clouds, so this is extremely exciting.
Yeah, well... WHAT WE OWE THE DEAD - my new sci-fi novel - will be out in March with Set Margins'.
>> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <<
The book is beautifully illustrated by @demigiant.bsky.social, and if you're into #philosophy and #games, you might enjoy this one :)
>> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <<
The book is beautifully illustrated by @demigiant.bsky.social, and if you're into #philosophy and #games, you might enjoy this one :)
February 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Stefano has already shown his fiction chops with The Clouds, so this is extremely exciting.
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My co-author Dom and I made the authors' version of our chapter in the Monstrosity in Games and Play book finally freely available! Dom has already uploaded the chapter to his website (see below), I'll follow soon on my website.
Give it (and Dom's other works) a read if you're interested. :)
Give it (and Dom's other works) a read if you're interested. :)
Another new publication?! That's right, they're coming thick and fast now. This time, co-authored with @jjol33n.bsky.social.
"Honor Died on the Beach": Constructing Japaneseness Through Monstrosity in Ghost of Tsushima
🔓https://domford.net/publication/ford-blom-honor-2025/ford-blom-honor-2025.pdf
"Honor Died on the Beach": Constructing Japaneseness Through Monstrosity in Ghost of Tsushima
🔓https://domford.net/publication/ford-blom-honor-2025/ford-blom-honor-2025.pdf
February 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
My co-author Dom and I made the authors' version of our chapter in the Monstrosity in Games and Play book finally freely available! Dom has already uploaded the chapter to his website (see below), I'll follow soon on my website.
Give it (and Dom's other works) a read if you're interested. :)
Give it (and Dom's other works) a read if you're interested. :)
Another new publication?! That's right, they're coming thick and fast now. This time, co-authored with @jjol33n.bsky.social.
"Honor Died on the Beach": Constructing Japaneseness Through Monstrosity in Ghost of Tsushima
🔓https://domford.net/publication/ford-blom-honor-2025/ford-blom-honor-2025.pdf
"Honor Died on the Beach": Constructing Japaneseness Through Monstrosity in Ghost of Tsushima
🔓https://domford.net/publication/ford-blom-honor-2025/ford-blom-honor-2025.pdf
February 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Another new publication?! That's right, they're coming thick and fast now. This time, co-authored with @jjol33n.bsky.social.
"Honor Died on the Beach": Constructing Japaneseness Through Monstrosity in Ghost of Tsushima
🔓https://domford.net/publication/ford-blom-honor-2025/ford-blom-honor-2025.pdf
"Honor Died on the Beach": Constructing Japaneseness Through Monstrosity in Ghost of Tsushima
🔓https://domford.net/publication/ford-blom-honor-2025/ford-blom-honor-2025.pdf