{"157121":{"#nid":"157121","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Digital Media Program to Host the 2013 DiGRA Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Digital Media Program in School of Literature, Media and Communication, Ivan Allen College, is proud to announce that it will host the sixth biannual Conference of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) which will be held August 26-29, 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDiGRA is the largest academic event in the game studies community, embracing international games researchers spanning a wide range of disciplines, from humanities to social and behavioral sciences, to computer science, to art and design. This will be the first time DiGRA will be hosted by a U.S. institution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDiGRA 2013 will be held at the historic Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta, August 26-29, immediately preceding Dragon*Con, the largest multi-media, multi-genre fan convention in the U.S. DiGRA 2013 will also be co-located with Women in Games and the Art History of Games.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe conference is being chaired by\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ECelia Pearce\u003C\/strong\u003E, professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003ESchool of Literature, Media, and Communication\u003C\/strong\u003E, John Sharp, of Parsons The New School for Design, and Helen Kennedy, or University of the West of England.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe call for papers will be released in late November. Visit the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.digra.org\/%20\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Econference site\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for updates.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E(Photo of the 2011 DiGRA conference courtesy\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/67486328@N03\/6254687888\/sizes\/l\/in\/set-72157627704036426\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EUtrecht School of Arts\u003C\/a\u003E)\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Digital Media Program in School of Literature, Media and Communication, Ivan Allen College, is proud to announce that it will host the sixth biannual Conference of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) which will be held August 26-29, 2013.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27663","created_gmt":"2012-09-26 12:36:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:50","author":"Rebecca Rolfe","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-09-26T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"157111":{"id":"157111","type":"image","title":"DiGRA 2011 Conference","body":null,"created":"1449178872","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:41:12","changed":"1475894792","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:32","alt":"DiGRA 2011 Conference","file":{"fid":"195317","name":"digra2011.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/digra2011_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/digra2011_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":87544,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/digra2011_0.jpg?itok=Z7JPqFs3"}},"158841":{"id":"158841","type":"image","title":"Celia Pearce","body":null,"created":"1449178883","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:41:23","changed":"1475894794","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:46:34","alt":"Celia Pearce","file":{"fid":"195368","name":"celiapearce2012_200x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/celiapearce2012_200x300_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/celiapearce2012_200x300_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":26730,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/celiapearce2012_200x300_0.jpg?itok=QfGjhyRD"}}},"media_ids":["157111","158841"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3627","name":"Celia Pearce"},{"id":"44551","name":"DiGRA"},{"id":"44561","name":"game conference"},{"id":"2356","name":"gaming"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane \u0026nbsp;404-894-1720\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}