[WebCultures] CFP: Fans, Videogames and History

[Michael Stevenson]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Communication History Discussion List <communicationhistory at communicationhistory.org>
> Subject: CFP: Fans, Videogames and History
> Date: February 2, 2015 at 10:04:07 PM GMT+1
> To: discussion at communicationhistory.org
> Reply-To: "Communication History Discussion List" <discussion at communicationhistory.org>
> 
> (Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, 
> is located at the end of this message.)
> __ 
> 
> CFP: Fans, Videogames and History
> 
> Over the last two decades, a substantial amount of research has addressed the fan culture phenomenon, particularly in relation to film and television; the focus has centred on the impact that fan communities can and have had on the 'official' creative works that are released by film and television studios. More recently, researchers have examined the impact that the internet has played in empowering and expanding the fan network and fan communication structures, and in affecting the production, marketing and audience engagement with the fan object.
> 
> Games are now central objects of study within Fan Studies, yet to date there has been only isolated consideration of gaming's long history of fandom, and fans' important roles in game history and preservation.  Little academic writing has focused on the impact and centrality that fan communities play -- as a collective intelligence, as a pool of individual creators of games, and as interested and engaged parties in the collecting and remembering of game history.
> 
> For this anthology we seek essays that address issues that come out of the various possible configurations of the terms: fans, games, and history. We invite proposals for chapters addressing one of three broad axes:
> 
> . Historicising game fandom
> . Fan contributions to game history
> . Methodological reflections on studying historic game fandom
> 
> We invite abstracts of 500 words that address the relationship between game fans and history. Possible themes and issues may include but are not limited to:
> 
> . Fan communities and the preservation of games
> . Online communities and gamer memories
> . Digital fandom before the internet
> . Nostalgia and history
> . Historicising fans' creative output
> . Magazines and fanzines as sources
> . how to 'do' fan history
> . Fans as authors of game history
> 
> Please send an abstract and brief bio to the editors by 30th April, 2015.  Full papers to be submitted by 30th August 2015.
> 
> Email:playitagain at flinders.edu.au
> 
> Editors - Melanie Swalwell, Angela Ndalianis, Helen Stuckey
> 
> -- 
> Assoc. Prof. Melanie Swalwell
> ARC Future Fellow
> 
> Screen and Media,
> Flinders University
> GPO Box 2100
> Adelaide SA 5001
> 
> http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/melanie.swalwell
> 
> 
> -- 
> The following information is a reminder of your current mailing
> list subscription: 
> 
> You are subscribed to the following list: 
> 	Communication History Discussion List
> 	
> using the following email:
> 	mpstevenson at gmail.com
> 
> You may automatically unsubscribe from this list at any time by 
> visiting the following URL:
> 
> <http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/commhistlist/>
> 
> If the above URL is inoperable, make sure that you have copied the 
> entire address. Some mail readers will wrap a long URL and thus break
> this automatic unsubscribe mechanism. 
> 
> You may also change your subscription by visiting this list's main screen: 
> 
> <http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/commhistlist>
> 
> If you're still having trouble, please contact the list owner at: 
> 
> 	<mailto:communicationhistory at communicationhistory.org>
> 
> The following physical address is associated with this mailing list: 
> 
> David Park
> Associate Professor
> Department of Communication
> Lake Forest College
> 555 N. Sheridan Road
> Lake Forest, IL  60045-2399
> 
> Mailing List Powered by Dada Mail
> http://www.communicationhistory.org/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/what_is_dada_mail/