I’ll be updating links to the more interesting presentations or events.
Feedback and questions always welcome!
- June 22 :: Beit-Berl’s 2nd National Video Games Conference
Panel: Gamer Culture | Moderator: Dr. Noah Efron
Who Am I When I Game?
After a fascinating and dense decade-long history of multi-player online role-playing games (MMORPG’s), we are now faced with well documented cultural phenomena of anomie, isolation, addiction and abuse. The statistics seem overwhelming, and stories of clinical addiction are widely reported. However, these environments provide a rich prism through which we can fruitfully re-consider questions of self, identity and inter-personal experimentation.This kind of fragmented representation of self is best understood in the context of postmodern de-construction of self, which has prompted more finely contextualized constructs of Who the self is… The discussion looks at a number of new models of self-constructs, finally appealing to embodied identity in space in order to better understand the dialectic between addiction and immersiveness so inherent in this form of play.
>> Presentation slides – [H] (1.6MB)
>> Reported on by Ido Hartogsohn for Nana 10 Machshevim [H]
- March 18 :: 7th Annual Conference – Israeli Association of History and Philosophy of Science
Panel: Video Games | Moderator: Yuval Dror
Crime-bots as Dialectic Agents in Virtual, Online Role-playing Environments
>> English Abstract (.doc)
>> Presentation slides – [H] (.pdf – 512KB)
- Feb. 19-20 :: ISOC-IL 10th Annual Internet Conference
Panel: Games are a Serious Matter | Coordinator & Moderator: Dr. Elhanan Gazit Serious Games in Education – Gaia: Experiential Learning of Life Skills through a Computer Assisted Roleplaying Game
>> Abstract and Presentation slides [H]
>> Hanan Gazit’s blog: VRider with a post-con post [H]
