Call For Papers
G|A|M|E – Games as Art, Media, Entertainment
‘Would you kindly?’: Claiming Video Game Agency as Interdisciplinary Concept
https://www.gamejournal.it/n-8-2019-would-you-kindly-claiming-video-game-agency-as-interdisciplinary-concept/
Deadline for extended abstracts: 19th July 2019
The new issue of G|A|M|E proposes a re-examination of the concept of agency in games. We welcome contributions that address the idea of agency from a variety of academic perspectives, taking into account its interdisciplinary history and application, in order to expand our critical understanding of the concept more broadly. We therefore invite scholars from all fields to reflect on different notions of agency, not only in relation to physical and digital games, but also to other media and art forms as they impact on games and game studies. At the end of the influential first-person shooter Bioshock (2K Games, 2007), its critique of the rhetoric of choice and freedom emerges from the dialogue between the protagonist Jack and the visionary despot of Rapture, Andrew Rayan.… read more. “Call: ‘Would you kindly?’: Claiming Video Game Agency as Interdisciplinary Concept – G|A|M|E issue”