Jane Austin’s gossipy plots are so perfect for the Facebook interface (forgive me Jane), take a look here.

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Very interesting experience in Tampere, at the annual Seminar, this time on the topic of “playful experiences”; the title must have sent several people’ s creativity spinning, as it is a very ambiguous concept.

Chaired by Frans Mayra, Olli Sotamaa, Aki Jarvinen, Oskar Juhlin, several stimulating interventions, my humble contribution was “Playfulness and trust in the Obama campaign on Facebook: bringing civic engagement into play”.

Only another paper, by Maaike De Jong, related to play and playfulness as a philosophical concept; I was expecting more work along that line, instead Olli Sotamaa talked about Little Big Planet and co-creativity, Annakaisa Kultima about the latest developments of the “expanded game experience” concept: she and other Finnish researchers, I remember only Kuittinen, published this key paper in 2007 about casual games that developed the idea of casual games being just a part in a larger scheme, called “expanded game experience”.
Jessica Enewold presented a really cool research on playing mums, and also Markus Montola’s presentation was very inspiring, on the general concept of play; I wish I could remember more presentations, these were my highlights
Here is the programme

It has been a loooooong time since I posted something, I really have no excuses, except the force (or weakness) of habit.
News: all my paper proposals this year have been accepted, so I will be going to Tampere, at a seminar on Playful Experiences, then in May at Video Vortex in Split, then again at Modernity 2.0 in Urbino, and ISEA in September. (wow, I have been busy last January).
My research topic is now slightly different: on one side I am considering (visual) reception in transmedia storytelling, just to keep up with my film studies lineage; on the other side I am considering the dynamics of play and playfulness in, again, transmedia storytelling, but also in social networks, with an eye on politically connoted communication.
Fun, uh?
The news and bits I will be posting will belong then from now on to slightly different areas, such as social games and activism in social networks, although I still see my interests as quite homogeneous, and ready to be transformed into a PhD project.
Soon on these screens, then…..

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