Creating Second Lives.

Date: Friday 24 October 2008
Time: 09:00:00
Location: John Phillips Hall
College Road
BANGOR
Gwynedd
LL57 2DG

Creating Second Lives Conference

Date: 24th/25th October 2008

Location: John Phillips Hall

NIECI's Research Centre for Games and Virtual Environments (Dr Astrid Ensslin and Dr Eben Muse) is hosting an international conference, Creating Second Lives: Reading and Writing Virtual Communities. Talks will be focusing on how alternative identities and communities are formed and received in video and massively multiplayer online games as well as virtual worlds such as Second Life.

Keynote speakers will include Espen Aarseth, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Gamestudies.org and author of Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, and Fred Hasson, founding CEO of TIGA, the UK Games Development Trade Association.

The event will also see the launch of the Journal of Gaming and Virtual Worlds (Intellect), which is edited by Dr Ensslin and Dr Muse and will be published three times a year.

For further details, visit http://nieci.bangor.ac.uk/conf/?q=en/content/creating_second_lives_reading_and_writing_virtual_communities.