Creative Gamers - Exploring Participatory Culture in Gaming Seminar, January 11-12, 2005

Creative Gamers - Exploring Participatory Culture in Gaming Seminar, January 11-12, 2005
University of Tampere, Finland
Hypermedia Laboratory

Game modifications ('mods'), game fan sites, gamer community web pages, player created productions such as machinima (short movies created with game engines) have grown in popularity and s ignificance. This development can be interpreted to reflect the larger transformations in the user-producer relations and the landscape of media production in general.

We invite proposals for presentations at the "Creative Gamers Seminar" organized by University of Tampere Hypermedia Laboratory GameLab. To submit a paper to the seminar, please send an abstract of maximum 1500 words to the following address: info-gamestudies@uta.fi. The deadline for the submission of papers is 19th November 2004. For further information, please visit the seminar website at:

http://www.uta.fi/hyper/gamelab/creativegamers/

or send email to olli.sotamaa@uta.fi.

Posted on Friday, 15th October 2004