ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research ZeMKI Members: Presentations at Beyond Play Conference NewsZeMKI-News1. October 2024 Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Prof. Dr. Karsten D. Wolf and Prof. Dr. Christian Schwarzenegger gave the opening lecture (The Transformative Power of Digital Gaming in a Deeply Mediatized Society) at the Beyond Play conference. Other exciting talks will be given by Dr. Dom Ford (Community, alienation and the experience of networks: Maybe the real game environment was the friends we didn’t make along the way), Bodil Stelter (Sexualizations as forms of character evaluation in The Last of Us: Part II: A case study in the margins) and Dr. Kathrin Trattner (“Was Barbarossa not German?!” Nation, History and Identity in German Civilization – Players’ Online Discussions). Persons Bodil StelterDr. Dom FordDr. Kathrin TrattnerProf. Dr. Karsten D. WolfProf. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler Labs Lab Media and EducationLab Media and ReligionLab Media Change and Long-Term Transformation Processes