{"id":4809,"date":"2013-05-28T19:26:34","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T19:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2013-05-28T19:26:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T19:26:34","slug":"japanese-game-studies-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4809","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Game Studies 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Game_Banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4815\" title=\"Game_Banner\" src=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Game_Banner-300x116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Game_Banner-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Game_Banner.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just got back from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/ualberta.ca\/japan-game-study-conference-2013\/\">International Japan Game Studies 2013 conference<\/a> at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto and I&#8217;ve been keeping a conference report at,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/philosophi.ca\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/JapaneseGameStudies2013\">Japanese Game Studies 2013<\/a>. This is a follow up conference to the <a href=\"http:\/\/grand-nce.ca\/events\/event-data\/2012\/re-playing-japan\">Re-playing Japan<\/a> symposium we had last summer here in Edmonton. The plan is to have another one in August 2014 to continue the dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>The conference was one of the best I&#8217;ve been to in a while. The mix of Japanese and North American scholars and designers coming at the issues from different traditions made for a fascinating confrontation of who games can be studied. At the end I was on a panel that talked about where we are going next. I suggested that we need to think about the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to conduct cross-cultural research so that we avoid the danger of generalizing about Japanese and Western players\/designers.<\/li>\n<li>How the academy can engage the stakeholders including business, but only business. For example we should be engaging the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D%C5%8Djin\">doujin<\/a> community, the indie developers, the journalists and the fans.<\/li>\n<li>Figuring out how to archive games and game related materials for future study is a priority.<\/li>\n<li>Training new researchers should also be a priority.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from the International Japan Game Studies 2013 conference at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto and I&#8217;ve been keeping a conference report at,\u00a0Japanese Game Studies 2013. This is a follow up conference to the Re-playing Japan symposium we had last summer here in Edmonton. The plan is to have another one in August &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japanese Game Studies 2013<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-computers-and-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4817,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions\/4817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}