This Friday, 5th November at the Pervasive Media Studio.
What is exactly is pervasive gaming? Why do people create and play these games? What makes them fun? What do hipsters and big games have in common?
This Friday I’m giving a talk on the ethnographic work I’ve been doing on Big/Pervasive/Urban Games. It’s an early stage presentation of some of my results. In it I will discuss what I think they are, why it is important to study them, some current interesting trends and leading to why I’ve been doing the ethnographic work in the specific settings I’m currently using in my work.
Using ethnographic excerpts it will illustrate thematic issues around the social and cultural situation of this gaming phenomena as well as explore the aesthetics of the gameplay itself. It will not be a highly academic talk and it is intended to help you understand the methods used in the research and the value of this approach. And yes, you will find out exactly how hipsters fit in.
