Call for Papers:

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media
Technologies Vol 13 no 4

Special Issue: Playing with convergence – digital games

The field of Game Studies is maturing beyond the boisterous binary
positioning that characterised its early development, with even those
in attendance during the early ‘theory wars’ attempting
rapprochements of one kind or another (e.g. Juul 2005, Jenkins
2003). The process of disciplinary development has shown that the
most vociferously held early positions are simply inadequate to the
task of accounting for the complex and diverse pleasures of gameplay,
and the jostling to define games in general may even have distracted
from a proper critical focus on the games themselves.

We no longer need to describe our object of study as though to the
uninitiated, nor do we need to persuade a resistant audience that
games are cultural objects worthy of detailed critical analysis.
This special issue is particularly interested in work which
demonstrates a familiarity with the debates that have shaped the
emergent field but which show the confidence to develop those earlier
debates through detailed, sustained analysis of individual games.

For this special issue of Convergence: The International Journal of
Research into New Media Technologies we are seeking original Research
into videogames, and we are particularly interested in the following
areas: consideration of the work of particular designers or design
teams, reflections on the status of authorship in games, and
reflections on the relationship between visual design and gameplay in
particular games and considerations of the relationship between
particular games and broader visual traditions.

We seek a variety of approaches that represent the diversity of work
in game studies, from textual analysis through to ethnographic
studies of players and historical investigations.

Authors should submit expressions of interest or papers to
helen.kennedy@uwe.ac.uk or jason.wilson@luton.ac.uk

Deadline: 30th November 2006

www.luton.ac.uk/convergence
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Jason Wilson

Reviews Editor - Convergence

School of Media, Art and Design
University of Luton
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Luton
Bedfordshire
LU1 3JU
United Kingdom

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jason.wilson@luton.ac.uk

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