Dom Ford: Lecture"How players talk about disastrous game launches: What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II?"

On November 29, 2024, ZeMKI member Dr. Dom Ford will give a talk on “How players talk about disastrous game launches: What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II?” at the “Conference on Language, Norms and Digital Lives” at the University of Copenhagen.

“How do we talk on digital media? How do we talk about digital media? How do we talk with digital media?”

Given the development of the Internet and digital media over the last three decades and the impact this has had on the way that people interact both online and offline, these questions are pertinent. Countless online platforms, many of which can be accessed at any given point in time via portable app technology, have given birth to countless communities of practice, ranging from the mainstream to the fringes. Norms and conventions of interaction come into being, some of which are transient and some of which are more permanent.

In recognition of this, the first Conference on Language, Norms and Digital Lives explores language on/around/about/with/through the internet and invites contributions addressing issues related to language and the digital. We welcome different theoretical frameworks, approaches, and methods – qualitative and quantitative – for example, corpus linguistics, linguistic ethnography, sociolinguistic interviews, and discourse analysis.

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