yup seems so! (feels like that history is tied to the earlier "software studies" stuff where deep dives into a system was seen as important.)

It's been fun to venture into a very different domain and at moments reminds me of the earliest days of game studies. This symposium happens at the end of the big theme park industry convention. A little like when us academics started turning up at GDC back in the day ;)

Interesting reflection and seems deeply tied to discipline/method. Ethnographers are often doing single fieldsite books :)

Hi5s to the team who pulled it off. Like so many in that community who learned to craft and make costumes and make experiences together as a result of their time on the Halcyon, they undertook making a movie 🙌 It’s pretty amazing how creatively generative that experience was for so many ❤️

means a lot to hear old work can still contribute ❤️ i need to grab that book too. big congrats on it! (i’m mostly in the land of theme park studies these days but always love your and jaakko’s work!)

belated thanks for the shoutout! ❤️

aw thanks Scott!

aw that is so nice to hear! i felt the same about it! okay maybe can rally and make it happen again this year 🤞 (back at MIT or should we try to get it somewhere else? UK? ;)

ah good to know. i think i went to a PCA in the 90s as a grad student but never since!

neat! thanks for the heads-up about it :)

thanks for the tips. (I should put SCMS on my radar in particular probably)

aw thanks. will def keep that in mind! (just curious, what conferences do you usually attend to present your work?)

I slacked this year but maybe I need to make that happen again sometime 🤔

I do sometimes wish it was a f2f conf since it'd be fun to hang out with you (and others) again!

I sometimes tell students how many different ways you could play Tetris back then and they are shocked. I have vivid memories of both coop and competitive with two folks on one keyboard and screen :)