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MIL Open Academy: Thorkild Hanghøj and Louise Anker Nexø

Webinar: Esports and education - challenges and potentials

Esports is no longer an exotic phenomenon, as it has become an integrated part of everyday life for many players around the globe. Nonetheless, competitive gaming offers challenges and potentials. To enhance current knowledge, we need a more detailed understandings of the social norms connected with gaming practices and how these norms can be addressed in educational contexts. On this webinar, researchers, students and practitioners will present empirical case studies from different gaming contexts and open up a general discussion about the challenges and potentials of esports.

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  • 19.01.2023 Kl. 14:00 - 16:30
    Tilmeldingsfrist: 17.01.2023

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Online

19.01.2023 Kl. 14:00 - 16:3019.01.2023 Kl. 14:00 - 16:30
Tilmeldingsfrist: 17.01.2023

English

Online

Deltagelse er gratis

MIL Open Academy: Thorkild Hanghøj and Louise Anker Nexø

Webinar: Esports and education - challenges and potentials

Esports is no longer an exotic phenomenon, as it has become an integrated part of everyday life for many players around the globe. Nonetheless, competitive gaming offers challenges and potentials. To enhance current knowledge, we need a more detailed understandings of the social norms connected with gaming practices and how these norms can be addressed in educational contexts. On this webinar, researchers, students and practitioners will present empirical case studies from different gaming contexts and open up a general discussion about the challenges and potentials of esports.

Online

  • 19.01.2023 Kl. 14:00 - 16:30
    Tilmeldingsfrist: 17.01.2023

  • Åben for alle

  • English

  • Online

Deltagelse er gratis

Online

19.01.2023 Kl. 14:00 - 16:3019.01.2023 Kl. 14:00 - 16:30
Tilmeldingsfrist: 17.01.2023

English

Online

Deltagelse er gratis

Presentations
The presenters are a mix of researchers, students and practitioners, who all study or work with esports in various contexts. Each presentation will last 10 minutes and be followed by a 10 minutes discussion. Finally, we will conclude with a general discussion based on questions from the audience.

Situational orderliness of toxic behavior in online gaming
Louise Anker Nexø (AAU)

“We have to talk together”: Addressing communicative challenges among amateur esport players
Thorkild Hanghøj, Rebecca Höper, Tanya Rudberg Selin & Emma Malling Steensen (all AAU)

Esports - the new “white boys” club? Problematizing the norms limiting diversity and inclusion in an educational gaming context
Frederik Rusk & Mathilda Ståhl (both Åbo Akademi)

The social norms and territories of gaming at an after-school club
Thorkild Hanghøj (AAU) & Emil Ludvigsen (Center for Digital Pædagogik) 

How to facilitate esports teaching for young people at risk with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Peter Christensen (Esport Denmark) & Emil Agertoft Johansen (Sputnik STU)

The webinar will be take place on Zoom on January 19 from 2-4:30 pm. It will be hosted by Thorkild Hanghøj and Louise Anker Nexø (both Aalborg University) as a part of MIL Open Academy in collaboration with the GAMLIT research network (gamlit.org).

The webinar will be recorded and uploaded on this website.

Please register no later than January 10. We will send you a Zoom link shortly before the webinar takes place..