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amayer.bsky.social
@amayer.bsky.social
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Science and Technology Studies // Game Culture Studies // Human-Technology-Interaction // Neo-Baroque Media

Researching DIY Technology Practices and Intersections of Technology Development and Game Cultures @ Tampere University
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amayer.bsky.social
Something for the fellow Arts+Tech crowd:

NordiCHI 2026 will host the track "Art-Based Approaches in HCI"!
We welcome artistic and art-based practice-forward approaches to Human-Computer Interactions under the broad umbrella term of "energy".

More information here:

sites.uwasa.fi/nordichi2026...
Arts-Based Approaches in HCI  – NordiCHI 2026
sites.uwasa.fi
February 3, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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litgamestudies.bsky.social
@floriankluge.bsky.social und ich durften eine @paidia.bsky.social-Ausgabe zu Final Fantasy herausgeben, die nun online ist.

Darin sind 9 Beiträge versammelt, die sich vornehmlich Spielen der Hauptreihe aus ganz unterschiedlichen Forschungsinteressen heraus nähern.

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January 30, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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hekabeohnename.bsky.social
New CfP by @pachuki.bsky.social and me! We'll be editing a special issue at gamevironments and are looking for contributions focused on DIY print publications like fanzines, newsletters and even DIY aspects of commercial gaming magazines. #GameStudies

journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...
Calls for Papers | gamevironments
journals.suub.uni-bremen.de
January 26, 2026 at 8:15 AM
amayer.bsky.social
Travelled to ECQI with @matildastahl.bsky.social to discuss the role of identity, safety, and danger in "riskful" ethnography!
This work-in-progress brings together some of our previous experiences of risks and challenges in fieldstudies, using them as a base for our future work in SURVIVE.
A picture of the mainbuilding of the University of Athens at Dusk behind a water fountain. A picture of a banner of ECQI 2026 in front of the conference venue.
January 22, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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miguelsicart.bsky.social
Here’s a friendly reminder about the conference we are running at the ITU in May: playingfutures.today
Deadline for abstracts is February 16th, and the conference will take place May 20th to 22nd in Copenhagen. Look at our call for papers for more details: playingfutures.today/call-for-pap...
Playing Futures
Playing Futures is a conference about the role of games and play during and after the impending climate and energy catastrophes. The goal of the conference is to serve as a meeting point for the commu...
playingfutures.today
January 19, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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josserme.bsky.social
🥳New #medievalsky #earlymodern Open Access Article!

It's about the roles and lives of women in the Alps, including:
- How generic male language in sources hides the presence of women
- ⛏️ Female construction workers building roads across the Alps
-⚖️ A lord turning women into men (legally speaking)
Toil and Trouble: The Labour, Duties and Rights of Women in Alpine Communities in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
How were women perceived and treated in Alpine communities in the late Middle Ages? This study explores this question by using sources ranging from the fourteenth up to the sixteenth century and fr...
www.tandfonline.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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annanosthoff.bsky.social
Jetzt online: @fmaschewski.bsky.social und ich haben eine kurze Ideengeschichte der Space-Unternehmungen von Bezos und Musk und über den Einfluss des Longtermism auf deren proprietäre Infrastrukturprojekte im All geschrieben: www.medienwerk.nrw/articles/die...
January 17, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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vinicius-marino.bsky.social
The proceedings of last year's @midagesmodgames.bsky.social conference are finally out!

All in all, we've got almost 200 pages of bite-sized papers on all kinds of ludic medievalism.

#historygames #medievalsky #gtp #gamingthepast #gamestudies
MAMG25 Proceedings
issuu.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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leonxiao.com
GachaCon 2026 is just one month away (12–13 February)! Preliminary programme: docs.google.com/spreadsheets.... Want to bag some GachaCon merch? Register for attendance: forms.gle/Mjk9tRo9TTSW....
January 9, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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jjol33n.bsky.social
Eludamos has a new CFP for a Special issue: New Perspectives on Men and Masculinity in Gaming

Eludamos invites scholars in game studies and beyond to submit full papers for a special issue on men and masculinity in gaming, with deadline March 15, 2026.
January 7, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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gutierrezcarrera.bsky.social
The article @jjol33n.bsky.social and I have been working on, "Ludic Representations of Suicide Livestreams in the Japanese Videogame NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD," is now out on the journal Thanatos.

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Ludic Representations of Suicide Livestreams in the Japanese Videogame NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD
In this article, we argue that suicide livestreams serve as a communicative appeal to correct (mis)representations of the suicidal individual through footage that will immortalise the suicide by doing...
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January 7, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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kathrintrattner.bsky.social
New year, new publication alert - and this is a big one for me. My book "The Role of Enemies in Military Shooter Video Games" is out! It’s an attempt to provide a systematic framework for analyzing enemies in military shooters.
www.routledge.com/The-Role-of-...
The Role of Enemies in Military Shooter Video Games: On Hostile Ground
This book delivers a unique way of understanding the heart of every first‑person military shooter game – its enemies – from within the genre itself to present a nuanced view of opponents in war games....
www.routledge.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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josserme.bsky.social
Just made a quick video of my #envhist #medievalsky talk about human-animal relations "Exploding Pigs & Retirement Homes For Cows: Alpine Human-Animal Relations in the Late Middle Ages"➡️
works.hcommons.org/records/eq9z...
December 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
amayer.bsky.social
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December 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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coegamecult.bsky.social
The last article summary of the CoE blog is here! Ville Malinen discusses game videos addressing the fatal accident of Ayrton Senna as a form and tool of cultural memory based on his article originally written in Finnish. Read the summary here:
Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies – Article Summary: Game videos addressing the fatal accident of Ayrton Senna as a form and tool of cultural memory (Malinen, 2025)
This blog post provides an English summary of an article that explores the relationship between simulative game videos and cultural memory through the fatal crash of Formula One driver Ayrton Senna…
coe-gamecult.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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spatialpolitiq.bsky.social
Correct diagnosis: It's not that LLMs will "undo" science but they will accelerate its slopification because of the already existing perverse incentive structures that are in place. "LLMs didn’t create the dysfunction in scientific publishing; they inherited it, intensified it, made it run faster."
kevinbaker.bsky.social ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · Dec 15
I wrote a piece on LLMs, citation metrics, and the institution of science. It's been up for a couple of days, but it is officially "out" now.
Context Widows
or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
artificialbureaucracy.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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coegamecult.bsky.social
The search for a definitive “first” Finnish digital game or the singular origin of the Finnish game industry has shaped historical narratives, even though such beginnings are often complex, contested, and continuously pushed earlier by new discoveries. More in the blog post by Jaakko Suominen:
Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies – Jaakko Suominen: Stories of the Origin of the Finnish Game Industry
The search for a definitive “first” Finnish digital game or the singular origin of the Finnish game industry has shaped historical narratives, even though such beginnings are often complex, contest…
coe-gamecult.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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coegamecult.bsky.social
New article summary at the CoE blog: Markku Reunanen, Petri Saarikoski and Tapani Joelsson discuss how home computers arrived at Finnish homes in the 1980s based on an online survey conducted in 2022.
Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies – Article Summary: “Me and Friends Got into Computing” – The Arrival of Computers at Finnish homes in the 1980s. (Reunanen, Saarikoski & Joelsson, 2025)
In this blog post, Markku Reunanen, Petri Saarikoski and Tapani Joelsson discuss how home computers arrived at Finnish homes in the 1980s based on an online survey conducted in 2022.
coe-gamecult.org
December 15, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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radiatoryang.bsky.social
new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows
game screenshot of a sexy guy getting fished out of the water game screenshot of a sexy shirtless fisherman and behind him a rainbow-flagged Boeing CH-47 Chinook tandem-rotor transport helicopter flying in the distance dumping hundreds of fresh live sexy men into the lake, replenishing the depleted stocks for the sexy shirtless fisherman's continued enjoyment.
December 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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nicolebraida.bsky.social
CFP for the next issue of G|A|M|E – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment, on “Queer and Trans Game Studies in Global and Local Contexts” is out!
This issue aims to map current developments in queer and trans game studies.

For full details: www.gamejournal.it/n-132025-bey...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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t0mm7.bsky.social
DiGRA deadline extended until 8th December for abstracts and full papers.

www.digraconference2026.com
DiGRA 2026 Conference | Maynooth University, Ireland
Join the DiGRA 2026 conference at Maynooth University, 14–18 June 2026. Theme “Intersectional Pleasures.” A global hybrid event for game research, culture, design, and industry.
www.digraconference2026.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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derek-ruez.bsky.social
Tampere University friends:

Academic Board (konsistori) elections at Tampere University began this morning, and voting is open working days, 8am-5pm, until November 28. University staff and grant researchers can find the link to vote on the university intranet: intra.tuni.fi/en/organisat...
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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rainforestsb.bsky.social
🚚🚚🚚New article alert! Part of a special issue on games + container technologies, it’s about truckers who play Truck Simulator in their trucks, but also simulation, battlestations, and the logistics of work and play. It's open access, so please take a look 🚚🚚🚚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Truck simulator, trucker-simulators, and the containment of neoliberal capitalism
This paper discusses truckers who play games (including Truck Simulator) while on the road. Inspired by the concept of “container technologies” and more recent work which distinguishes between cont...
www.tandfonline.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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mobilemediacomm.bsky.social
📞🎮 Sidetalking: Nokia’s playful design gone sideways

Heikki Jungman, @t0mm7.bsky.social, Niklas Nylund & @sotamaa.bsky.social revisit the N-Gage’s sideways-calling feature.
💡 The article shows how cultural misalignment, not tech flaws, doomed it.

🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM