[Air-L] new regular issue of gamevironments 2017 + CfP for the next regular issue 2018

[Zeiler, Xenia]

**sorry for cross-posting**

Dear colleagues,

we are happy to announce the new issue of gamevironments, http://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/!
In this year's regular issue, #6 (2017), you find articles, a game review, and a research report.

#6 (2017)

Authentic Historical Imagery: A Suggested Approach for Medieval Videogames
http://nbn-resolving.de/ urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105937-19
Article by Julian Wolterink, 1-33.

You can Be Anyone; but there are Limits. A Gendered Reading of Sexuality and Player Avatar Identification in Dragon Age: Inquisition
http://nbn-resolving.de/ urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105939-12
Article by Mohamed S. Hassan, 34-67.

“Do you feel like a hero yet?” – Spec Ops: The Line and the Concept of the Hero.
http://nbn-resolving.de/ urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105940-10
Article by Henrik Andergard, 68-99.

Accept your baptism, and die! Redemption, Death and Baptism in Bioshock Infinite
http://nbn-resolving.de/ urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105941-11
Article by Frank Bosman, 100-129.

Night in the Woods : a Review.
http://nbn-resolving.de/ urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105942-13
Article by Kathrin Trattner, 130-137.

Games of Social Control. A Sociological Study of ‚Addiction‘ to Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Games
http://nbn-resolving.de/ urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00105943-14
Article by Stef Aupers, 138-161.

Enjoy :)

The next special issue, on Jewish gamevironments (issue editor Owen Gottlieb), is in preparation and will be published in winter 2017.
The next regular issue will be out in summer 2018. We now invite submissions for the next regular issue in a number of formats - articles, book or game reviews, research reports on new or planned research projects, etc. Just check the CfP on the website! Please also share this CfP and the deadlines with interested colleagues, doctoral students etc.:

31.10.2017 Full Chapter Submission
31.12.2017 Review Results Returned
31.02.2018 Revised Chapter Submission
summer 2018 Online-Publication

Best
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler & Xenia Zeiler
(editors-in-chief)
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Prof. Dr. Xenia Zeiler
Associate Professor, South Asian Studies

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