Hi all, here is another last minute opportunity to join forces in proposing an interesting panel for IR.11: I am coordinating a panel titled "Fantasy and the Net" that will look into how fantasy (as an imaginative impulse as well as a transmedial genre of popular culture) is being reframed and reinterpreted in online games and other forms of participation in the Internet. The collaborative forms of fantasy fandom, organizational practices of online fantasy game guilds, as well as the creative potentials of online media for producing and sharing fantasy art are only some of the possible topics this panel can address. Hopefully we can contribute towards building some kind of overview of what "online fantasy" actually means today. If you are interested, please send me (frans.mayra@uta.fi) a brief abstract (250-500 words is fine) and your short bio/cv, by the Friday 18th February internal deadline. Looking forward to discussing fantasy in Gothenburg; - frans - -- | Frans Mäyrä, PhD * Professor of Digital Culture & Game Studies | Department of Information Studies & Interactive Media /// | Games Research Lab * University of Tampere * Finland ///// | www.uta.fi/laitokset/infim/ * http://gamelab.uta.fi ////// | frans.mayra@uta.fi *gsm +358503367650 *fax +358335517503 /// | www.unet.fi/fransblog **** www.uta.fi/~frans.mayra /////////