[Air-L] Call for Papers: 4th Vienna Games Conference "Future and Reality of Gaming - F.R.O.G. 2010"

[Jeffrey Wimmer]

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

We would like to inform you that the abstract submission of the 4th  
Vienna Games Conference "Future and Reality of Gaming - F.R.O.G.  
2010" is now open. Vienna’s annual Games Conference FROG, taking  
place from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 September 2010, offers an open and  
international platform for leading game studies researchers and  
scholars, game designers, education professionals and gamers from  
around the world. The main objective of FROG 10 is to explore the  
relations between gaming, society and culture and to discuss insights  
into how to think ahead and beyond common limits of theory and  
practice of game and play. Therefore the Call for abstracts and games  
focuses on the topic "GAME\\PLAY\\SOCIETY". FROG 2010 is jointly  
organized by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and  
Youth, the City of Vienna, wienXtra, the University of Vienna and the  
Danube-University Krems.


CALL 4 Abstracts & Games (see attachment)
4th Vienna Games Conference "Future and Reality of Gaming - F.R.O.G.  
2010
"GAME\\PLAY\\SOCIETY
Friday 24 to Sunday 26 September 2010
Vienna City Hall, Austria
www.bupp.at/frog

First Keynote Speaker Announcements include Katie Salen, Professor in  
Design and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design and co- 
author of "Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals" and Mathias  
Mertens, Professor in Media Studies at the University Hildesheim and  
co-author of "Wir waren Space Invaders". Ian Bogost, Professor at  
Georgia Tech and author of “Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame  
Criticism,” “Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames”.  
More to be announced under www.bupp.at/frog

Key Dates
Abstract submission: 15 May 2010
Notification: 07 June 2010
Conference: 24-26 September 2010
Full paper: October 2010

The organizers seek proposals covering all aspects of cutting-edge  
research on digital gaming, gaming culture, game studies, therapy and  
economy within or across academic disciplines. For further details  
please find the FROG 2010 CfP attached.


See you in Vienna,
Konstantin Mitgutsch (for the PC-Committee)

For any questions, please contact k_mitgut at mit.edu or visit the  
Conference website www.bupp.at/frog.