Extending Play: Rutgers Media Studies Conference

Extending Play: Rutgers Media Studies Conference Play can be hard work and serious business.

It’s time to push beyond the conceptualization of play as merely the pursuit of leisure and consider how the issues of power, affect, labor, identity, and privacy surround the idea and practice of play. The Rutgers Media Studies Conference: Extending Play aims to explore, understand, and facilitate discussion of play as a mediating practice and how play operates at the center of media.

08/20/2016

Register now for Extending Play 3!!! http://extendingplay.rutgers.edu/register/
Online registration is open until 9/20

Register Registration is open now. Registration fees are described below: $ 100 Standard rate (non-earlybird) – for Faculty and others (open until 9/20) $ 75 Student rate (for non-Rutgers students, open until 9/20) Independent Game Developers (open until 9/20) Free with code Rutgers students (Email…

CFP Out now! Extending Play 3: Temporalities of Play Proposals Due: April 3rdhttp://extendingplay.rutgers.edu/cfp/“Hist...
02/16/2016

CFP Out now!

Extending Play 3: Temporalities of Play

Proposals Due: April 3rd
http://extendingplay.rutgers.edu/cfp/

“History is indeed absent from the game, absent as something finished, as a storyline in the past tense. What replaces it is a history workshop, a model of history as the intuition of algorithms and their consequences. The gamer is a designer.” (Mckenzie Wark, "Gamer Theory")

CFP Extending Play is back, and this iteration will play with the concept of time. We are looking for papers that excavate the past, interpret the present, and forecast the future of play and games. We aim to continue the mission of the previous two Extending Play conferences, to entertain all appro…

02/01/2016
04/14/2015

3 more days until we repeat!

04/10/2015

What is media without ethics? This year we're focusing on how the ethics of play replicate.

The Program for Extending Play: The Sequel is up! Feast your eyes on our dazzling array of intellectual muscle! And, ple...
04/09/2015

The Program for Extending Play: The Sequel is up! Feast your eyes on our dazzling array of intellectual muscle! And, please come participate if you are in the area!

http://mediacon.rutgers.edu/program-2/

This is it! Only 14 more hours to get those abstracts in!
12/12/2014

This is it! Only 14 more hours to get those abstracts in!

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10/07/2014

It's coming....

Conference dates are new and improved - pass it on!
07/03/2014

Conference dates are new and improved - pass it on!

05/10/2014

Guess that quote: "For a child repetition is the soul of play"

04/19/2013

It has begun! Today is day one of the conference and registration is open!

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