Call 4 Abstracts
5th Vienna Games Conference
Future and Reality of Gaming – FROG11
Applied Playfulness
Competence, Media and Sociability of Play
Vienna City Hall, Austria, Friday 21 to Sunday 23 October 2011; http://bupp.at/frog
Vienna’s annual Games Conference, “Future and Reality of Gaming” (FROG), offers an open and international platform for leading game studies researchers and scholars, game designers, researchers and scholars from various other fields, education professionals, and gamers from around the world. The main objective of the FROG11 is to explore the phenomena of applied playfulness in regard to questions of media competence, media convergence, the sociability of play and the impacts of games on future and reality of our culture. FROG11 is jointly organized by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth, the City of Vienna, wienXtra, the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, the University of Vienna, the Danube-University Krems and FAMUS.… read more. “Call: Future and Reality of Gaming (FROG11) – Applied Playfulnes: Competence, Media and Sociability of Play”