{"id":715,"date":"2009-09-07T20:38:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T00:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=715"},"modified":"2009-09-10T11:49:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T15:49:47","slug":"the-digra-2009-conference-as-seen-through-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/09\/07\/the-digra-2009-conference-as-seen-through-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The DiGRA 2009 conference, as seen through Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from the <a href=\"http:\/\/amd.newport.ac.uk\/displayPage.aspx?object_id=10073&amp;type=PAG\">2009 DiGRA video game conference<\/a> at Brunel University (outside London).<\/p>\n<p>I will write some detailed observations later, but for now let me just do what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=596\">I did at GDC<\/a>: post some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/\">Wordle<\/a> maps that I made from the #digra09 Twitter feed.<\/p>\n<p>If we for a moment trust this way of analyzing a conference, I think we can see that video game studies are diverging quite a bit: no single focus, but a number of ongoing and continually morphing smaller discussions.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_717\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-717\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-717  \" title=\"Digra Sept 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-1-450x229.png\" alt=\"DiGRA conference tweets, September 1\" width=\"450\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-1-450x229.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-1.png 833w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DiGRA conference tweets, September 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_718\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-718\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-718  \" title=\"Digra Sept 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-2-450x272.png\" alt=\"DiGRA conference tweets, September 2\" width=\"450\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-2-450x272.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-2.png 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DiGRA conference tweets, September 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-719\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-719  \" title=\"Digra Sept 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-3-450x222.png\" alt=\"DiGRA conference tweets, September 3\" width=\"450\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-3-450x222.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-3.png 826w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DiGRA conference tweets, September 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-716\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-716  \" title=\"Digra Sept 4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-4-450x239.png\" alt=\"DiGRA conference tweets, September 4\" width=\"450\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-4-450x239.png 450w, https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Digra-sept-4.png 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DiGRA conference tweets, September 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PS. It was a good conference too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from the 2009 DiGRA video game conference at Brunel University (outside London). I will write some detailed observations later, but for now let me just do what I did at GDC: post some Wordle maps that I made from the #digra09 Twitter feed. If we for a moment trust this way of analyzing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2009\/09\/07\/the-digra-2009-conference-as-seen-through-twitter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The DiGRA 2009 conference, as seen through Twitter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}