Video Games and Autoethnography Experimental Workshop
Runs through Friday, May 12, 2023
Online Event
The Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network (EHCN) presents "Video Games & Autoethnography,” an experimental research workshop that is a hybrid event, taking place in CEU Vienna and online on April 28th, May 5th, and May 12th. This workshop is free of charge.This is a 3-day experimental workshop about using autoethnography to study video games. According to a recent special issue of a media studies journal, ‘the future of media studies is game studies’. Video games have matured into a sophisticated and diverse form of technology and art, one now prominent in global culture and playing an increasingly important role within it. Their economic market was valued in 2021 at approximately $198 billion, set to rise to $340 billion by 2027.
Over 3 billion people are estimated to play video games regularly, with an increase of 1 billion in just the past 7 years. This is more people than subscribe to Christianity - the world’s most popular religion - by over half a billion. Anything which engages this much of the global population and commands such economic power deserves to be thoroughly investigated. Accordingly, game studies has grown exponentially in the past two decades into a flourishing academic field for analysing games from a concertedly interdisciplinary perspective. There has never been a better or more appropriate time to be studying video games.
Autoethnography is a qualitative research methodology that involves examining personal experiences and socio-cultural contexts in order to gain insights into societal phenomena. The workshop aims to familiarise the participants with some of the key issues in game studies and autoethnographic research, and to experiment with the practice of collective data generation. We will establish a communal area for playing chosen video games together, we use the gaming session to collect (auto)ethnographic data, and finally we will analyse them and discuss potential outcomes of the research.
Questions? Contact [email protected] or [email protected]
Deadline to apply is Friday, April 21
For more information, call 845-758-6822.
Location: Online Event