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Rapture through Russell
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Rapture Through Russell

Rapture through Russell
Bioshock and Bertrand Russell's Authority & the Individual

Many commentators and reporters have ascribed the downfall of BioShock’s Rapture – the Adam addicts, the horrifying cruelty and the shocking race towards self destruction – to the game’s desire to satirise the novel Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.

Monday, July 28, 2014

The MetaFandom Unconference is Calling for Participants!

Let's Talk Fandom and Fan studies!

The University of Waterloo’s Games Institute as well as the IMMERSe Research Network is proud to host a MetaFandom Unconference on Thursday, September 18th and Friday the 19th. Unconferences are gatherings of interested scholars and experts, where they have informed conversations on a particular topic ­­ fandom and fan studies, in this case!

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Monday, May 12, 2014

CHI PLAY 2014 Call for Papers

As previously reported on the IMMERSe website: http://immerse-network.com/news-chi-play-2014-call-for-papers/ & the CHI PLAY website.

About the Conference

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The ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) is a new international and interdisciplinary conference series (sponsored by ACM SIGCHI) for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI), we call it: “player-computer interaction”.