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SUMMARY:Friday Frontiers Webinar: Mytholudics: Games and Myth
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Dom Ford\, University of Bergen\n\nRegistration: ht
 tps://dariah.zoom.us/meeting/register/829zNVouQZKUG0zr7wQmpA\n\nAbstract\n
 \nGames create worlds made of many different elements\, but also of rules\
 , systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense 
 of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approach to understanding
  games using theories from myth and folklore. Myth is understood not as an
  object or a kind of story\, but as a way of expressing meaning\, a way in
  which we produce a model for understanding the world and things in it. Th
 is talk lays out this approach and how it can help you analyse and concept
 ualise gameworlds. The framework helps to see games and their worlds in th
 e whole. Stories\, gameplay\, systems\, rules\, spatial configurations and
  art styles can all be considered together as contributing to the meaning 
 of the game.\n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nDom Ford is a postdoctoral research
 er at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen\, as pa
 rt of the LEAD AI programme. His current project looks at nonplayer charac
 ters in games with AI-generated dialogue\, how players respond to the use 
 of this technology and how this use may challenge ideas in the philosophy 
 of fiction like intentionality. He is also an editor for Eludamos. Previou
 sly he was a postdoc at the University of Bremen\, part of the Media and R
 eligion lab in the ZeMKI Centre for Media\, Communication and Information 
 Research\, where he was also the managing editor for gamevironments.\n\nHi
 s first book\, Mytholudics: Games and Myth\, proposes a method for analysi
 ng games both as conduits of mythologies within society and as mythologica
 l structures in themselves. It’s out now and published by De Gruyter.\n\
 nHe wrote his PhD at the IT University of Copenhagen’s Center for Digita
 l Play between 2019 and 2022\, supervised by Hans-Joachim Backe.
LOCATION:Online
URL:https://www.dariah.eu/events/friday-frontiers-webinar-mytholudics-games
 -and-myth
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