Computer Games / Players / Game Cultures: State and Perspectives

International Conference
Computer Games / Players / Game Cultures:
State and Perspectives of Digital Game Studies
At the same time: Spring Conference of the Media Education Commission
of the German Association for Educational Science
Conference Location:
Building 05, University Campus, Universitätsplatz 2, Magdeburg
Conference Office:
Room G05-116
Programme
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Arrival:
From 7:00 p.m.: pre-conference get-together of speakers,
presenters and participants in the Restaurant Bistro Le Cochon
(Hegelstraße 39) in Magdeburg
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Department for the Humanities, Social an Educational Sciences
Institute for Educational Science
Head of Pedagogical Media Research and Adult Education
In Cooperation with
Media Education Commission of the German Association for Educational Science
and
Centre for Social Worlds Research and Methods: Health – Profession – Media
Thursday 19 March 2009
from
8:30
Registration in the conference office, Room 116
Forum for PhD-students
(Track 1: English)
Chair: Johannes Fromme
Room 209
Forum for PhD-students
(Track 2: German)
Chair: Heinz Moser
Room 205
Susanne Eichner (Potsdam, D):
Involvement through Agency in Video
Games, TV and Film
Brigitte Gasser (Zürich, CH):
Die Rolle von Empathie in der Realität und in
virtuellen Welten
10:05
Betty Li Meldgaard (Aalborg, DK):
Ecological Perception, Game World Layout,
Players’ Perceptual Situatedness
Niklas Schrape (Potsdam, D):
Die Rhetorik der Computerspiele am Beispiel
von PEACEMAKER
10:55
Coffee break, Room 210
11:10
Patrick Ruckdeschel (Erlangen, D):
Video Games as Functional Platforms
Anja Hawlitschek (Erfurt, D):
Spielend lernen in der Schule. Serious Games
zwischen Entertainment und Education
12:00
Souvik Mukherjee (Nottingham, UK):
EgoShooting in Chernobyl: Identity and
Subject(s) in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R Games
Christoph Eisemann (Ludwigsburg, D):
Audiovisuelle Selbstdarstellung auf YouTube
12:50
Lunch Break, Room 210
9:15
1:15 p.m.
Official opening of the conference - Welcome Notes:
•
Vice Chancellor (Rektor) of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Prof. Dr. Klaus
Erich Pollmann
•
Dean of the Department for the Humanities, Social and Educational Sciences, Prof. Dr.
Winfried Marotzki
•
Chair of the Media Education Commission of the German Association of Educational
Science, Prof. Dr. Heinz Moser
•
Department for Politically Less Interested Target Groups, Federal Agency for Civic
Education, Bonn, Arne Busse
2:00 p.m.
Keynote 1: MMO Morality
Richard Bartle (University of Essex, UK)
Chair: Ben Bachmair
Room 205 (plus live Video-Stream in Room 209)
3:00 p.m.
Coffee break, Room 210
Panel 1 (German): Pädagogische und
lernorientierte Zugänge
Chair: Sven Kommer
Room 205
Panel 2 (English): Users and uses of
computer games
Chair: Alexander Unger
Room 209
3:30 p.m.
Konstantin Mitgutsch (Wien, A):
Lernen Sie noch oder spielen Sie schon?
Dorothee M. Meister & Jörg MüllerLietzkow (Paderborn, D):
Computer games in the context of young
people’s media activities
4:20 p.m.
Dominik Petko (Goldau, CH):
awwware – Ein komplexes Mini-Game zur
Förderung von kritischer
Internetkompetenz
Malin Sveningsson Elm (Karlstad, S):
“Pity there’s so few girls!” Attitudes to female
participation in a Swedish gaming context
5:10 p.m.
Coffee break, Room 210
5:30 p.m.
Franz Lehner (Passau, D):
Computer- und Onlinespiele zum Training
von Sozialkompetenzen – Versuch einer
Bestandsaufnahme und Bewertung
Jan Keilhauer (Leipzig, D):
Online-Gamers: Empirical data about modern
media worlds of young people
6:20 p.m.
Matthias Bopp (Tübingen, D):
Zentrale Gegenstände und Aufgaben der
Computerspielpädagogik
Steve Dahlskog (Malmö, S):
Playing Together: Revisiting Rules and
Repertoire
7:10 p.m.
End of panel sessions
8:00 p.m.
Meeting for dinner at the L~Be (Mediterranean Restaurant on the river Elbe, Schleinufer
30) – the buffet is included in the conference fee, drinks for one’s own account.
Supporting programme: MillerJazzBand
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Friday 20 March 2009
9:00
10:00
10:30
Keynote 2: The Challenge of Measuring the Use of Computer Games
Christoph Klimmt (University of Mainz)
Chair: Winfred Kaminski
Room 205 (plus live Video-Stream in Room 209)
Coffee Break, Room 210
Panel 3 (German):
Computerspiele und Gesellschaft
Chair: Lothar Mikos
Room 205
Panel 4 (English):
The player-game-relation
Chair: Christoph Klimmt
Room 209
Rolf F. Nohr (Braunschweig, D):
Daniel Pietschmann & Georg Valtin
(Chemnitz, D):
Die Produktion gesellschaftlichen und
subjektiven Wissens im Computerspiel am
Beispiel von Strategiespielen
11:20
12:10
1:00 p.m.
1:50 p.m.
The effect of authentic input devices on
computer game immersion
Sven Jöckel (Hannover, D)
& Leyla Dogruel (Berlin, D):
Elke Hemminger
(Schwäbisch Gmünd, D):
Aber die anderen spielen das doch auch –
Medienwahl, Restriktionen und
Regulierungsstrategien bei Computer- und
Videospielen
Mergence of Spaces. MMORPG User-Practice
and Everyday Life
Lunch break, Room 210
Christian Swertz (Wien, A):
Monica Mayer (Bamberg, D):
Computerspielesucht. Eine Annährung aus
pädagogischer Perspektive
Why playing games is better than living lifes
– Motivation, emotion and cognition based on
digital games
Serjoscha Wiemer (Braunschweig, D):
Katharina Stephenson (Wien, A):
Interface-Analyse und strategisches
Wissen in Echtzeitstrategiespielen
Immersion into Intermediate Areas – Danger
or Developmental Challenge?
2:40 p.m.
Coffee break, Room 210
3:10 p.m.
Keynote 3: The strange case of the disappearance of sex in video games
Tanya Krzywinska (Brunel University West London, UK)
Chair: Richard Bartle
Room 205 (plus live Video-Stream in Room 209)
4:10 p.m.
Coffee break, Room 210
4:40 p.m.
Keynote 4 (per Videokonferenz): Simulations, Games, and the Next Generation of
Learning
Eric Klopfer (MIT, Boston, USA)
Chair: Tanya Krzywinska
Room 205 (plus live Video-Stream in Room 209)
5:40 p.m.
Break
6:00 p.m.
until
7:30 p.m.
Poster-Session, Room 208
Poster-presentations from Ravi Purushotma (Boston, USA), Steffen Malo (Rostock, D) &
Thorben Wist (Bonn, D), Rolf Kretschmann (Stuttgart, D), Dominik Härig (Marburg, D),
Eva Duven (Mainz, D), Karsten Wolf (Bremen, D), Regina Friess (Berlin, D), Ralf Biermann
(Magdeburg, D), Stefanie Krauel (Leipzig, D)
Chair: Anja Hartung, Bernd Schorb
7:00 p.m.
Meeting of members of the Media Education
Commission
Room 205
Meeting AG Games
Room 209
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Saturday 21 March 2009
9:00
9:50
Panel 5 (English):
Game and player cultures
Chair: Ralf Biermann
Room 205
Panel 6 (English): Computer games and
game analysis
Chair: Britta Neitzel
Room 209
Tanja Adamus (Duisburg, D):
Aki Järvinen (Copenhagen, DK):
E-Sport – in search of an educational
explanation for a new research field
Emotional analysis of computer game designs
Judith Ackermann (Bonn, D):
Connie Veugen (Amsterdam, NL):
Playing computer gaming as social
interaction. An analysis of LAN-Parties
Computer Games as a Comparative Medium:
a few cautious remarks
10:40
Coffee Break, Room 210
11:00
Jutta Zaremba (Frankfurt, D):
Felix Raczkowski (D):
The Gender-Offensive: Female Gaming
Cultures between shooters and marketing
“And what do you play?” Games and Genres
– Considerations for a Genre Theory of
Computer Games
Jeffrey Wimmer (Bremen, D):
Daniel Martin Feige
(Frankfurt a.M., D):
11:50
Digital game cultures as prototypes of
mediatisation and individualisation
12:40
Computer Games as Works of Art?
Lunch break, Room 210
1:30 p.m.
Keynote 5: Growing Game Worlds
Michael Nitsche (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA)
- Chair: Johannes Fromme
Room 205 (plus live Video-Stream in Room 209)
2:30 p.m.
Coffee break, Room 210
3:00 p.m.
Panel 5 (continued): Game and player
cultures
Chair: Ralf Biermann
Room 205
Panel 6 (continued): Computer games
and game analysis
Chair: Britta Neitzel
Room 209
Caja Thimm (Bonn, D):
Stephan Günzel (Potsdam, D):
Second Life – Computer Game or Virtual
Society?
The mediality of computer games
3:50 p.m.
4 p.m.
Press conference
Room 116
Paolo Ruffino (Bologna, I):
The videogame that never was
4:40 p.m.
Break
5:00 p.m.
Panel-discussion: “Computer game addiction” – the description and handling of excessive
gaming
Chair: Bernd Schorb
Participants: Bernward Hoffmann (Münster, D – GMK: Association for Media Education
and Communication Culture), Heinz Moser (Zürich, CH – Media Education Commission of
the German Association for Educational Science), Kai W. Müller (Mainz, D), Jens
Wiemken (Vechta, D)
Room 205 (plus live Video-Stream in Room 209)
6:30 p.m.
End of the conference
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