[Air-L] Communities of Play: A Livestreaming Symposium, April 17-18

[Christopher John Olson]

You are cordially invited to Communities of Play: A Livestreaming Symposium, hosted by Serious Play/the Digital Cultures Collaboratory at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. The symposium will take place on April 17-18, featuring online presentations of and about streaming of video gameplay and other performative activities, both in and out of the academy. The event will feature streamers from around the U.S. and will coordinate with a parallel event in Jyväskylä, Finland. The symposium will take place on Twitch, so please join us in chat! We have included a brief schedule of events below. More details are to follow on Twitch, Facebook, and Twitter!


Brief Schedule of Events:


April 17: Join us for presentations from our colleagues in Jyväskylä on Twitch:

https://www.twitch.tv/serious_play


April 18, 12 PM – 5 PM Central: Join us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/serious_play

12 PM | Keynote Speaker: Krista-Lee Malone (University of Wisconsin)

1 PM | Ryan Thompson (Michigan State University)

2 PM | Thomas Malaby and Ryan House (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

3 PM | Lunch Break

4 PM | Social


Follow Serious Play on social media for more information!


Twitch: https://m.twitch.tv/serious_play

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/SeriousPlayUWM

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/SeriousPlayUWM


Christopher John Olson

PhD candidate: Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Office: Curtin 392

Email: olson429 at uwm.edu


Reviews Editor, The Popular Culture Studies Journal<http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/>


Author/Co-Author/Co-Editor

Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media<https://www.routledge.com/Normalizing-Mental-Illness-and-Neurodiversity-in-Entertainment-Media-Quieting/Johnson-Olson/p/book/9780367820527> (Routledge, 2021)

The Greatest Cult Television Shows of All Time<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538122556/The-Greatest-Cult-Television-Shows-of-All-Time> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)

Convergent Wrestling<https://www.routledge.com/Convergent-Wrestling-Participatory-Culture-Transmedia-Storytelling-and/Reinhard-Olson/p/book/9780815377641> (Routledge, 2019)

100 Greatest Cult Films<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442208223/100-Greatest-Cult-Films> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)

Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498539579/Heroes-Heroines-and-Everything-in-Between-Challenging-Gender-and-Sexuality-Stereotypes-in-Children%27s-Entertainment-Media> (Lexington, 2017)

Possessed Women, Haunted States<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498519083/Possessed-Women-Haunted-States-Cultural-Tensions-in-Exorcism-Cinema> (Lexington, 2016)

Making Sense of Cinema <https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/making-sense-of-cinema-9781501320217/> (Bloomsbury, 2016)