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Game Research Lab @gameresearchlab.bsky.social · 9d

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

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Aug 11

Creating AI avatars of dead people needs to become an absolute societal taboo.

u24usa.bsky.social @u24usa.bsky.social · Aug 9

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…

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…

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Carolin Puckhaber @caroleinx.bsky.social · Aug 7

📯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

No. #22 (2025): Special Issue "Peripheral Religions" | gamevironments

tinyurl.com

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Jana Byars @janalena.bsky.social · Aug 7

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

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Julián Gutiérrez Carrera @gutierrezcarrera.bsky.social · Jun 26

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.

Fictional videogames as framing devices: Suicide communication in MMOs | Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture

eludamos.org

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Aug 6

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

Dom Ford, "Mytholudics: Games and Myth" (de Gruyter, 2025) - New Books Network

newbooksnetwork.com

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Daniel Vella @danielvella.bsky.social · Jul 16

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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Kathrin Trattner @kathrintrattner.bsky.social · Jul 11

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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Mikko Meriläinen @merilainen.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Jun 4

Hooooooly social mirroring 😂

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · Jun 4

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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Nele Van de Mosselaer @nelevdm.bsky.social · May 20

👩‍🍳 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...

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · May 7

Thanks, Poppy 🙏

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tahma.bsky.social @tahma.bsky.social · May 6

Neuer Lesestoff für derzeit zu kalt Abende. @johannesfranzen.bsky.social @domford.bsky.social

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gamevironments @gamevironments.bsky.social · Apr 24

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…📩📷

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Apr 24

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.

Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Apr 21

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.

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

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Apr 24

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 (:

Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Apr 22

📖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...

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

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Apr 23

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.

Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · Apr 2

'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)

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Stefano Gualeni @gua-le-ni.com · Apr 2

'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)

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Apr 22

always a joy to find others working in this space ❤️

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Apr 22

omg I didn't even notice that. That's a new one!!

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Apr 22

And thank you for all the support along the way <3

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Apr 22

So, if you or someone you know is interesting in games and myth, I hope this book helps. And don't hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions for me - I'm very happy to hear from people about this!

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

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Apr 22

But I'm very happy to see this out in the world now. It's been a long time in the making, starting officially in 2019 with my PhD but based on ideas I'd been turning over since at least 2015. There are lots of people to thank, but you can read the acknowledgements for that.

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Dom Ford @domford.bsky.social · Apr 22

The book is, unfortunately, prohibitively expensive. That's academic publishing for you. Maybe you have institutional access to the ebook, or else requesting it in your library is also a good option. I'm told there will be an affordable paperback later down the line.

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