RE: [xmca] online games as tools for sociability

In the US, there are groups working with Henry Jenkins at MIT, and Jim Gee's
former group still at U of Wisconsin (esp. Kurt Squire and Constance
Steinkuehler). Jim is now in Arizona.

In Europe, there is a group at Utrecht University (Joost Raessens) that has
some philosophical interests as well as general studies of games and
sociality (philosopher is Jos de Mul). Also IT University of Copenhagen
(DK).

What kinds of data will you be using?

JAY.

Jay L. Lemke
Professor
University of Michigan
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-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
Behalf Of Luiz Carlos Baptista
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 5:23 PM
To: 'eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity'
Subject: RE: [xmca] online games as tools for sociability

Thanks a lot, Michaels (Cole and Evans)

and by "good places" I mean institutions.

Cheers,

Luiz

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From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
Behalf Of Michael A. Evans
Sent: quinta-feira, 31 de Janeiro de 2008 1:17
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] online games as tools for sociability

Luiz,

If you haven't already seen this, MIT Press (in conjunction with the
MacArthur Foundation in the US) has just released a six-volume series that
might assist with your efforts:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?btype=6&serid=170

I'm currently using "The Ecology of Games" in my course...

BTW, when you say you're searching for "good places to pursue this kind of
research" - were you referring to institutions, conferences, or something
else?

Best of luck!
Michael~

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> From: Luiz Carlos Baptista <lucabaptista@fcsh.unl.pt>
> Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:20:05 +0000
> To: "'eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity'" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Subject: [xmca] online games as tools for sociability
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been missing for quite a while, lost in the jungle of Philosophy of
> Language. But now I want to embark on a new research project. I am about
to
> start studying online games, which I see as tools for sociability (in
Georg
> Simmel's sense). As some of you may know, there is a growing literature on
> ethnographical and sociological accounts of this phenomenon, and I intend
to
> draw on this work in order to pursue a philosophically oriented research,
> dealing also with issues such as make-believe, joint pretense, distributed
> cognition and the intermingling of "real" and "fictional" objects and
> characters.
> 
> I am just finishing collecting the relevant material and hope to start
> working on it in the next few weeks. I would appreciate any suggestions
you
> might make, as well as info about good places to pursue this kind of
> research (since I am interested in working abroad).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Luiz Carlos Baptista
> 
> **********
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