Spectating Play seminar, 24-25 April, 2017
Programme
Day 1, Monday 24th of April
08:30 Coffee and registration
09:00 Welcoming words: Conference Chair Frans Mäyrä
09:15-10:30 Session 1: History and Context
Päivi Lahdelma & Jaakko Suominen: Spectating Digital Play: An Early History and the Domestic Context
Safinah Ali, Rachel Moeller, Judeth Oden Choi, Jessica Hammer: Design Potentials of Audience Participation Games Aided by Tools in the Space
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2: Streaming
Patrick Prax, Josef Thoresen & Sofia E: “Positive People Always Win” — An exploration of the way female streamers are impacted by and deal with gendered harassment
Robyn Hope: Boundary Negotiation and Play as Performance in Critical Role
Riikka Turtiainen, Usva Friman & Maria Ruotsalainen: Framing the Overwatch World Cup 2016 as a sport
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Commentator Keynote
Nick Taylor: Observe and Report: Expert Play and the Work of Watching
14:00-15:00 Spectators and Online Communication
Max Sjöblom, Maria Törhönen, Joseph Macey & Juho Hamari: Social Media Usage in the Context of Live eSports Events
Ksenia Konstantinova, llya Musabirov & Denis Bulygin: Online communication of eSports viewers: Topic Modeling approach
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Session 4: Performer-Player-Spectator
Jamie Harper: The Witness-Player Continuum: An Anti-Transcendent Approach to Play Spectatorship
Jaakko Stenros & Jamie MacDonald: Audience Theory for Larp
Espen Aarseth: Spec Ops: The line between player and spectator in ludic entertainment
19:00 Evening program at Oasis (Pinni B, Kanslerinrinne 1, 33014 University of Tampere) http://oasis.uta.fi/
Day 2, Tuesday 25th of April
10:00-11:00 Session 5: Spectators of eSports
Anna-Sofia Alklind Taylor, Jana Rambusch & Tarja Susi: A pre-study on spectatorship in eSports
Joseph Macey, Juho Hamari, Max Sjöblom & Maria Törhönen: Investigating relationships between watching eSports, video game playing, and gambling
11:00-11:30 Industry Keynote
Rami Ismail: Livestreaming, Community building, and Performative Development – A retrospective
11:30-13:00 Lunch (museum tour at 12:15)
13:00-13:30 Commentator Keynote
Tanja Sihvonen: Play, Spectacle, and the Ways of Seeing
13:30-14:30 Session 6: Fun and Sociability
Mia Consalvo, Jason Begy, Pierson Browne, Sarah Ganzon, Rainforest Scully-Blaker & Rebecca Waldie: Tandem play linearity and a controller
Joleen Blom & Ida Jørgensen: Humor and Satire in The Garbage Guides
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-17:00 session 7: Performance and Spectacle
Björn Sjöblom & Jonas Linderoth: Instructed spectatorship: Shoutcasters and Guided Vision in e-Sports
Marleena Huuhka: Performing for and with the Pixel
Yinyi Luo & Mark Johnson: Exploring the Spectacle of Skill
Maria Törhönen, Juho Hamari, Max Sjöblom & Joseph Macey: Sharing Gameplay — definitions, concepts and agenda in streaming research [session moved from Monday]