[Air-L] Submission Extension to 5 April - CFP: Social, Casual, Mobile: Changing Games ANZCA Pre-Conference (2 July 2013)

[Tama Leaver]

Social, Casual, Mobile: Changing Games, ANZCA 2013 PreConference, 2
July 2013, Perth, Western Australia.

Extension: Abstract submissions will now remain open until Friday, 5 April 2013.

Keynote Speaker: Mia Consalvo, Concordia University in Montreal
http://about.me/miaconsalvo
Plenary Speaker: John Banks, Queensland University of Technology
http://www.playification.com/

Social, casual and mobile games – primarily experienced on smartphones
and online social networks – are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and
in the process, changing the ways in which games are designed,
understood and, most importantly, played. This free one-day
preconference held on 2 July at Curtin University in Perth, Australia,
will explore this rapidly changing gaming landscape and discuss the
ludic, methodological, theoretical, economic, social and cultural
challenges that these changes invoke.  Importantly, social, casual and
mobile games do not exist in a vacuum, so the challenges, changes and
continuities in relation to previous digital and physical games and
gaming practices are also open for analysis.

Topics might include, but are by no means limited to:
•	Design and industry shifts from traditional games to mobile and
networked games
•	New user demographics
•	Virtual currencies, in-game purchases, the .99c price-point and
other economic issues
•	Games as  surveillance and the exchange of user information for game progress
•	Zynga: The Rise and (partial) Fall of Facebook’s Biggest Gaming Friend
•	Mobile Franchises:  Angry Birds, Plants V Zombies, and so on.
•	South-East Asian and other non-Western gaming cultures
•	Gaming communities
•	Gamification - the good, the bad, and the scoreboard
•	Convergence and social, casual and mobile games
•	Edutainment
•	The sociality or otherwise of social games
•	Shifting landscape from PC and console games to social, casual and
mobile games
•	Locative games: place and mobility

Abstracts of no more than 500 words (or full papers of no more than
5000 words if preferred) including a brief biographic statement, using
APA 6th referencing style, are now due Friday, 5 April 2013 emailed to
socialcasualmobile at gmail.com. Accepted papers and abstract-only
presentations will be notified by 15 April 2013.

Pre-conference papers and abstracts will not appear in the ANZCA
proceedings; rather they will automatically be considered for
inclusion in an edited collection on the topic Social, Casual, Mobile:
Changing Games being organised concurrently with the preconference. If
you do NOT want your paper or abstract considered for inclusion in
this collection, please note this when emailing your submission.

For more details please visit http://socialcasualmobile.blogspot.com

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Dr Tama Leaver
Lecturer in Internet Studies
Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U1987 Perth WA Australia 6845
Phone: (+61 8) 9266 1258
Fax: (+61 8) 9266 3166
Email: t.leaver at curtin.edu.au
Web: www.tamaleaver.net

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