gamevironments
@gamevironments.bsky.social
A peer-reviewed journal on games/gaming related to culture and society*
Official journal of IASGAR
https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments
Official journal of IASGAR
https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments
Tomorrow our editor in-chief Prof. Dr. Lissa Holloway-Attaway will present her research results on "Making Kinship and Playing Dead:
Death, Grief, Mourning, and ‘Passing on‘ in Video Game Culture(s)" at the ZeMKI. 📆
ZeMKI Reminder 📣
On next Wednesday, the research colloqium with Prof. Dr. Lissa Holloway-Attaway titled "Making Kinship and Playing Dead: Death, Grief, Mourning, and ‘Passing on‘ in Video Game Culture(s)" will take place at ZeMKI.
More information:
zemki.uni-bremen.de/...
On next Wednesday, the research colloqium with Prof. Dr. Lissa Holloway-Attaway titled "Making Kinship and Playing Dead: Death, Grief, Mourning, and ‘Passing on‘ in Video Game Culture(s)" will take place at ZeMKI.
More information:
zemki.uni-bremen.de/...
November 4, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Tomorrow our editor in-chief Prof. Dr. Lissa Holloway-Attaway will present her research results on "Making Kinship and Playing Dead:
Death, Grief, Mourning, and ‘Passing on‘ in Video Game Culture(s)" at the ZeMKI. 📆
Our Last keynote today by Alenda Y. Chang on “On the Sustainability of Games and Play“ it was an inspiring conference. #gamevironments
October 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Our Last keynote today by Alenda Y. Chang on “On the Sustainability of Games and Play“ it was an inspiring conference. #gamevironments
And two other papers and two other board member - Gregory Grieve and Stef Aupers. Check out their work! #gamevironments
October 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
And two other papers and two other board member - Gregory Grieve and Stef Aupers. Check out their work! #gamevironments
Our Board member Xenia Zeiler and our Editor in Chief Lissa Holloway-Attaway presented each their work at the conference - interesting insights! 💡💡💡
October 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Our Board member Xenia Zeiler and our Editor in Chief Lissa Holloway-Attaway presented each their work at the conference - interesting insights! 💡💡💡
Day 2 anniversary conference 📆 with a interesting Keynote on „Media and corporatization of everything“ by Nick Couldry - stay tuned!
October 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Day 2 anniversary conference 📆 with a interesting Keynote on „Media and corporatization of everything“ by Nick Couldry - stay tuned!
First day of the conference comes to an end. Here we see our Board member Stef Aupers on "Paranoid futures": Conspiracy-theoretical boundary work
across social media platforms“ #gamevironments
across social media platforms“ #gamevironments
October 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
First day of the conference comes to an end. Here we see our Board member Stef Aupers on "Paranoid futures": Conspiracy-theoretical boundary work
across social media platforms“ #gamevironments
across social media platforms“ #gamevironments
Todays Keynote by José van Dijck “How to achieve digital sovereignty in Europe?“ Important questions and more important answers looking at digital platforms and infrastructure, public values and actors and the EU government. #gamevironments
October 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Todays Keynote by José van Dijck “How to achieve digital sovereignty in Europe?“ Important questions and more important answers looking at digital platforms and infrastructure, public values and actors and the EU government. #gamevironments
New day, new conference! Today we are at the ZeMKI anniversary conference “20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?” Listening here to the introduction by our editor in chief @radde-antweiler.bsky.social #gamevironments #conference
October 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
New day, new conference! Today we are at the ZeMKI anniversary conference “20 Years into the Future: What is our vision of media, data, and society?” Listening here to the introduction by our editor in chief @radde-antweiler.bsky.social #gamevironments #conference
Thank you for the successful gamevironments Research day 25‘ - we all take with us an autumn full of new visions, developments and inspiring conversations thanks to all the experts and young researchers 💻📆 there are bright times ahead!
October 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thank you for the successful gamevironments Research day 25‘ - we all take with us an autumn full of new visions, developments and inspiring conversations thanks to all the experts and young researchers 💻📆 there are bright times ahead!
Other session, other topics like e.g. „What makes you move: Reimagining Community through playable diologues with LGBTQ+ Protestant Identities“
October 22, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Other session, other topics like e.g. „What makes you move: Reimagining Community through playable diologues with LGBTQ+ Protestant Identities“
Current topics: “Revisiting Articulations of Immersion & Illusion: An Autoethnographic Study of MR Game Shattered“ and others… stay tuned for the next round!
October 22, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Current topics: “Revisiting Articulations of Immersion & Illusion: An Autoethnographic Study of MR Game Shattered“ and others… stay tuned for the next round!
Here we go! Starting our gamevironments Research Day 25‘💻📆 stay tuned!
October 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Here we go! Starting our gamevironments Research Day 25‘💻📆 stay tuned!
Check out the program of our upcoming hybrid gamevironments Research Day‘25! 📆
This year’s theme is “Video Games and Our Futures.”
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October 17, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Check out the program of our upcoming hybrid gamevironments Research Day‘25! 📆
Job advertisement: Research Associate (f/m/d) in the research focus Digital Gaming 💻📆 Check it out!
The ZeMKI "Media and Religion" department, headed by Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, is seeking two research associates (f/m/d) interested in researching the mediatization of religion, preferably religion and digital gaming.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Job advertisement: Research Associate (f/m/d) in the research focus Digital Gaming 💻📆 Check it out!
The gamevironments Research Day is in it‘s peak of preparation - we look forward to about 20 participants and their projects. Look out for the program release 💻📆
October 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The gamevironments Research Day is in it‘s peak of preparation - we look forward to about 20 participants and their projects. Look out for the program release 💻📆
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Die ZeMKI-Mitglieder Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf, Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger und Prof. Dr.
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September 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Die ZeMKI-Mitglieder Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf, Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger und Prof. Dr.
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Another new special issue, "Peripheral Religions" (edited by Carolin Puckhaber, Aska Mayer and Knut V. M. Wormstädt), in Gamevironments journal, at journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...:
gamevironments
An academic journal dedicated to the study of games in their media environments.
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August 1, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Another new special issue, "Peripheral Religions" (edited by Carolin Puckhaber, Aska Mayer and Knut V. M. Wormstädt), in Gamevironments journal, at journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...:
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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"
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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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Happy to share that our Special Issue for @gamevironments.bsky.social is out now! Check below for the link and a brief run-through of the authors and topics!
📯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"
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tinyurl.com
August 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Happy to share that our Special Issue for @gamevironments.bsky.social is out now! Check below for the link and a brief run-through of the authors and topics!
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There's another very kind review of The Middle Ages in Computer Games out on @gamevironments.bsky.social from @markusmindrebo.bsky.social. There's also a bunch of important articles on peripheral religions in games in this issue which are well worth a look. doi.org/10.48783/gam...
Review of Robert Houghton's The Middle Ages in Computer Games: Ludic Approaches to the Medieval and Medievalism (2024)
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August 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
There's another very kind review of The Middle Ages in Computer Games out on @gamevironments.bsky.social from @markusmindrebo.bsky.social. There's also a bunch of important articles on peripheral religions in games in this issue which are well worth a look. doi.org/10.48783/gam...
We recently published a special issue on Peripheral Religions and Games, guest edited by @caroleinx.bsky.social, @amayer.bsky.social and Knut Wormstädt! Four brand new articles exploring the topic, one report, two reviews and, of course, an introduction.
August 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
We recently published a special issue on Peripheral Religions and Games, guest edited by @caroleinx.bsky.social, @amayer.bsky.social and Knut Wormstädt! Four brand new articles exploring the topic, one report, two reviews and, of course, an introduction.
It's less than 2 weeks to submit your abstract for and secure your spot in **Video Games and Our Futures** - we are looking forward!
CfP gamevironments 2025 Research Day "Video Games and Our Futures"
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CfP gamevironments 2025 Research Day "Video Games and Our Futures"
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Research Day
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June 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
It's less than 2 weeks to submit your abstract for and secure your spot in **Video Games and Our Futures** - we are looking forward!
CfP gamevironments 2025 Research Day "Video Games and Our Futures"
journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...
CfP gamevironments 2025 Research Day "Video Games and Our Futures"
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Deadline end of May, don't forget to submit!
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
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https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/openquests…📩📷
May 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Deadline end of May, don't forget to submit!
Post-apocalyptic games provide one particularly popular 'gamevironment': board member @larsdewildt.bsky.social
(and current CAPAS fellow) recommends the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studiess Call for Fellowships, deadline 13 May.
t.co/Y2DWCfTNAn
(and current CAPAS fellow) recommends the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studiess Call for Fellowships, deadline 13 May.
t.co/Y2DWCfTNAn
https://www.capas.uni-heidelberg.de/en/fellowships-at-capas/call-for-applications
t.co
May 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Post-apocalyptic games provide one particularly popular 'gamevironment': board member @larsdewildt.bsky.social
(and current CAPAS fellow) recommends the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studiess Call for Fellowships, deadline 13 May.
t.co/Y2DWCfTNAn
(and current CAPAS fellow) recommends the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studiess Call for Fellowships, deadline 13 May.
t.co/Y2DWCfTNAn
Hi everyone, our board member Gia Coturri Sorenson has recommended this discussion on AI in games www.npr.org/transcripts/... Check it out!👌👌 #games #gamevironment #AI
The video game industry at a crossroads : Consider This from NPR
The video game industry is huge. Last year alone it generated an estimated $187 billion dollars in revenue. But it's also facing a host of serious issues: massive layoffs, the advent of A.I., games th...
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May 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Hi everyone, our board member Gia Coturri Sorenson has recommended this discussion on AI in games www.npr.org/transcripts/... Check it out!👌👌 #games #gamevironment #AI