ITH - Centrum för studier av IT ur ett
humanvetenskapligt perspektiv och
Center for Collaborative Innovation vid Högskolan i Borås
10:1
Games and Action 2
- Editorial
- Louise Madden
Online Gaming and Embodied Subjectivities
Methods to Reach Women’s Social Story of Gaming
[Refereed section]
- Elisabet M. Nilsson & Gunilla Svingby
Gaming as Actions
Students Playing a Mobile Educational Computer Game
[Refereed section]
- Ingrid Kjørstad
Taming the Game
Children's Constructive Use of Social and Communicative
Context When Playing Scary Computer Games
[Refereed section]
- Paul Pivec & Maja Pivec
Immersed, but How? That Is the Question
[Refereed section]
- Luca Rossi
Property Practices in World of Warcraft
[Open section]
- Maria Åresund & Staffan Björk
The Importance of Being a Player
[Refereed section]
Dear readers,
A warm welcome to this first issue of the 10th volume of Human IT, a journal that is now commencing its
13th calendar year. 9.3 was the first Human IT issue devoted to the theme of Games and action. This
(10.1) is the second and concluding issue on that theme. We are very happy to see the twin issues finally
setting sail, and would like to thank all the authors and the guest editor Jonas Linderoth for excellent
pieces of work and collaboration on this large project. For background and specifics of the theme and the
preceding Gothenburg conference, please see the editorial
of 9.3
as well as Jonas Linderoth’s
guest editorial in the same issue. I hope you will enjoy reading
the fresh and inspiring articles
of 10.1 as much as we editors have!
In issue 9.3, we also mentioned that Human IT aimed to convert its production and publication process and
move into the home of Open Journal Systems (OJS). This is still a main goal for us. We have however suffered
from considerable budget cuts by our department earlier this year and have as a consequence been forced to
reduce our journal efforts by more than 15%. As we prioritized finishing off the many article manuscripts we
had waiting in the Human IT pipeline, the only way to deal with this financial challenge has been to put the
OJS move on ice for the time being. While we certainly hope for a better financial situation the upcoming
semesters, the production schedule seems to open for a renewed OJS conversion effort in a near future,
hopefully in the upcoming academic year.
I wish you all an eventful and yet relaxing summer!
Borås in June 2009
Mats Dahlström, editor-in-chief
