Welcome to PLAYHOUSE

Playhouse is not really a blog, it’s a place for me to park stuff. I’m based at the Institute of Education, University of London. Check the blogroll for further details, or see the ‘who and what is playhouse?’.

Follow entries (over there, on your right) to more information on various events, including the recent game studies/film theory event, and these projects:

Learning from Online Worlds; Teaching in Second Life . This project begins in June 2007, it lasts 12 months, and it is funded by the Eduserv Foundation.

Digital Technology, Learning and Game Formats: Computer games, motivation and gender, funded by the Eduserv Foundation (2004-2007)

The AHRB funded Textuality and Videogames: Interactivity, Narrative Space and Role Play (2001-2003)

There’s also a page of information and a list of abstracts from meetings of the London Game Research Group.

Also – follow the blogroll for links to a Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) Special Interest Group on Games and Film.

 

For more information about computer game studies, try the journal Game Studies, or visit the digital library at the Digital Games Research Association, particularly the papers from the DiGRA 2003 and 2005 international conferences. There is a also a sample issue of the journal Games and Culture online here, plus there are short biographies of some games theorists (mostly UK-based ones) on the various event programmes listed here under ‘Pages’.

Accessibility – If you have trouble accessing the information on this blog, and you would prefer the material in another format please contact me d.carr[at]ioe.ac.uk.

The cover star is Ms Vella, a Second Life avatar.