With the danger of seeming overly critical of presentation form today: if you send a video to represent yourself at a conference, record your face as well. This increases the engagement with your text, and makes it easier to understand. Particularly if you speak rapidly.
Yes, still in Bremen, at Beyond Play. Due to the urgent administrative issue from yesterday, I am not all that present in the presentations. What I do catch is the droning cadence of presenters looking firmly down at the text. Newbies, do not write out the text, look up, change tone. Please!
Still in Bremen, but no live commenting, as I had, of course, not finished an administrative task with a deadline today. I got an extension for tomorrow, so I will probably multitask during the keynote... the glorious life of an academic...
Currently in Bremen for beyondplay2024.org, in the Nation, identity & gaming panel. Karin Trattner, Rachel Lara van der Merwe, Lars de Wildt and Gregory Grieve are presenting. Trattner starts, asking of Barbarossa was German?
I am in Bremen, my suitcase in Amsterdam. Typical of that airport. Good thing I am not speaking tomorrow.
So I did something, and now it is online: I was interviewed by the lovely Liz Davidson of Beyond Solitaire about dark and transgressive play, and also what I have done over the last 30 years: beyondsolitaire.buzzsprout.com/1091807/epis...
This week on the pod, Dr. Torill Elvira Mortensen, a professor at Nord University, talks about her career as a scholar who studies games and about her focus on dark play and transgressive play. If you...
Today I finished a lecture on "immersive journalism", a type that became rare around 2020. It was an attempt at using virtual reality for journalism. An example is the Daily 360 in NYT, sadly discontinued. Do anybody know of something similar today?
Remember, you still have time to submit to the Northern Star Symposium 2024 - Mending. The final deadline is April 10th 2024. We have two out of three awesome keynotes in place, working to finalise the last. www.nord.no/arrangemente...
The Northern Star Symposium is a three-day academic gathering in Bodø. The goal of this symposium is to have a place to discuss topics and questions that are not among the mainstream of conferences an...
The Northern Star symposium is delighted to have invited postdoctoral researcher Kinga Siewior (www.pismowidok.org/en/bio?id=2064www.researchgate.net/profile/Outi...www.linkedin.com/in/elhammar/www.nord.no/en/node/37228
Just a reminder that you still have a chance to participate in this brilliant and awesome thing that the Northern Star Symposium has developed into: www.nord.no/en/node/37228