Programme


(all sessions chaired by Valerie Frissen)

Day 1 - Wednesday November 17

Session I: Play, media, identity. 10.00-13.00

Opening
10.00-12.00: Valerie Frissen, Jos de Mul, Joost Raessens

12.00-13.00: Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Jeroen Timmermans


Lunch: 13:00-14:00

Session II: 14.00-17.30

Kenneth Gergen, “Playland: Technology, Self, and Cultural Collision” (referent Aupers)

Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath, “Playful Computer Interaction”    
(referent Kűcklich)

Julian Kűcklich, “Configure / Submit / Control. Protocols of Play and the Articulation of Algorithmic Subjectivity”                              
(referent Crogan)

Patrick Crogan, “Play (for) Time”                                                           
(referent Gergen)

Stef Aupers, “Religious Play: Encountering the Sacred in World of Warcraft”                                                                                                  
(referent Cermak-Sassenrath)


Day 2 - Thursday November 18

Session III: 9.00-12.30

Adriana Souza e Silva & Jordan Frith, “Location-based Mobile Games and Location-based Social Networks: Interfaces to Urban Spaces”
(referent Mäyrä)

Gordon Calleja, “Incorporation in Digital Games”                               
(referent Souza e Silva)) 

Richard Ling, “Play, Networking and the Transition in Mobile Telephony”                                                                                         
(referent Calleja)

Frans Mäyrä, “The Culture and Identity of Casual Online Play”
(referent Ling)

Lunch: 12:30-13:30

Session IV: 13.30-17.00

Caja Thimm, “Games and Virtual Worlds – From Play to Virtual Citizenship?”                                                                                      
(referent Fortunati) 

Britta Neitzel, “Me and my Dwarf. Identity Performances in WOW”
(referent Schouten )

Leopoldina Fortunati, “Mobile Media, Play and Social Identities”      
(referent Jansz)

Jeroen Jansz, “Playing out Identities and Emotions”                          
(referent Thimm)

Ben Schouten, Menno Deen, Tilde Bekker, “Playful Identity in Gamedesign and Open-ended Play”                            
(referent Neitzel)