Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity
Jaroslav Švelch’s book Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity has just been published by the MIT Press.
Society for the History of Technology, NYU, and the ‘Time of Monsters’
In November 2022, Jaroslav Švelch presented his research in the United States: at New York University (NYU) and at the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) conference, held in New Orleans, LA.
Our Research at DiGRA 2022
At the 2022 DiGRA conference, which took place in Krakow between July 7 and July 11, our researchers Tereza Fousek Krobová and Jaroslav Švelch presented three papers.
Read on Hyperlocal Games in a New Book on Game History and the Local
Edited by the Melanie Swalwell, the Game History and the Local edited volume has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. The first chapter in the book is our member’s Jaroslav Švelch’s contribution on hyperlocal games.
Call for PhD students – Game Production Studies
We are seeking two PhD students to develop projects aligned with the grant “Developing Theories and Methods for Game Industry Research,” starting in 2021, headed by Dr. Jaroslav Švelch, and located at Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism.