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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 2d

This weekend Cassandra Bookshop in Porto hosted the launch of the book Inteligências Entretecidas, which includes my essay “Imitation Aesthetics”. The book documents the workshop series organized by Earthsea Association and is edited by Ana Carvalho, Isabel Carvalho, and Vera Carmo.

Flyer for the event (in Portuguese)
11.10.2025
Livraria cassandra
17h
Lançamento das publicações:
Semente-Mundo
Chão de Urtigas
Desnaturadas e
Inteligências Entretecidas
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Lançamento do LP
Chão de Urtigas
EARTHSEA

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · 3d

Yep, more or less the same for my book!

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · 3d

Did they return it to OA now too?

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · 3d

Update: never received a reply, but T&L did update their website with an online OA version. You can get it there, or my preference would be the usual OAPEN link:
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling

library.oapen.org

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · 8d

Of course, I just received an out-of-office mail from TF's contact point.

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · 8d

The book is still OA available through this link: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

I very much hope that this matter will be resolved soon. TF's mails before the acquisition claim nothing would change for the existing books. The book was originally published, and should remain so.

Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling

library.oapen.org

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · 8d

Just now I discovered that with the acquisition of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) by Taylor & Francis (TF), the eBook version of my book is sold for €41,95 on their website with no OAPEN link available. I hope that this is just a mistake on TF's part and I just contacted them for clarification.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 11d

We‘d all like to make Rowling and her franchise disappear, but her transphobia & large-scale political influence and the reboot TV show make it hard to ignore from a scholarly perspective. Cassie Brummitt has written a salient study on what became of Harry Potter post-book that I got to blurb:

Book on a table, cover reads:
Cassie Brummitt
From Harry Potter to the Wizarding World
The Transfiguration of a Franchise

Back cover of the book:

From Harry Potter to the Wizarding World is a salient, long overdue analysis of the wealth and breadth of the story world in the post-book era, covering everything from online platform Pottermore, to its presence in Universal theme parks, the Studio Tour in Leavesden, the Cursed Child stage play, as well as the fledging Fantastic Beasts film series. Cassie Brummitt also convinces by reckoning with Rowling’s authorial control over the franchise, ever more important in light of her hateful and controversial presence in recent years.
– Sabrina Mittermeier, author of A Cultural History of Disneyland Theme Parks

The Harry Potter franchise is not confined to just the page or the screen, but has been and continues to be reimagined and reconfigured through a number of extratextual products, texts, and experiences which surround and rework the Harry Potter texts.

This book centres around the 2010s, or the ‘post-Potter era’, a period of unprecedented growth and reinvention for the franchise. Many of the franchising developments produced during this time operated according to distinct strategies: to consolidate the legacy of the Harry Potter series, or to extend the fictional universe into new settings, media and cultural forms.

This book explores six such developments - J.K. Rowling’s authorship, the website Pottermore, the ‘Wizarding World of Harry Potter’ theme parks, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Watford, the Fantastic Beasts films, and the stageplay Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – to shine a spotlight on a franchise in flux.

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The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies @coegamecult.bsky.social · 16d

Bryan Hikari Hartzheim will give an Oasis Lunchtime Talk on “Institutions of Play: Mapping Japan’s Indie Game Scene" on Thursday 2 October at 12:00-13:00 EEST. Join us at Oasis, Tampere University, or follow online: www.youtube.com/live/IuTUH27...

OASIS Lunchtime Talk: Institutions of Play: Mapping Japan’s Indie Game Scene

YouTube video by oasis_tuni

www.youtube.com

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · 23d

Yyyessss, of course! I should've known!

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Niels van Doorn @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social · 28d

I am very pleased to see this super insightful piece by @jingwangnyu.bsky.social out in @platformsnsociety.bsky.social! It examines how the “productization of APIs allows Alipay+ to extend its platform logic into global financial infrastructures.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/2976...

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · 24d

Oh gosh, to what do I have the honour? 😄

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Björn-Ole Kamm @b-ok.de · 24d

Just adding some tags to this symposium announcement! #larp, #gamestudies, #analoggames, #trpg

JARPS @jarps.net · 25d

Save the Date: JARPS 2025 Symposium on "Tools of the Trade: Props, Techniques, and Inspirations for Analog Role-Playing," Nov. 22, 2025.
「アナログロールプレイングのための七つ道具：小道具，技術，インスピレーション」についてのRPG学研究2025年度シンポジウム、2025年11月22日。
jarps.net/journal/anno...

JARPS 2025 Symposium "Tools of the Trade" Key Visual

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · 26d

I feel like I should both be proud and apologize for you starting to play LADS. The game is, imo, very relevant to our earlier discussions on Hello Kitty Island Adventure, Disney Dreamlight Valley etc. But this one then has with cute boys!

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Daniel Vella @danielvella.bsky.social · 27d

The new issue of Countertext includes a paper by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone and myself on libraries in digital games - their significances, (non-)functions, meanings. It's not open-access (boo), but ask and you shall receive
www.euppublishing.com/toc/count/11/2

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amayer.bsky.social @amayer.bsky.social · 26d

Meet me next week in Bochum (Germany) speaking about the concept of virtuality from the perspective of my own research, somewhere inbetween virtual prototyping and sensing.

SFB 1567 Virtuelle Lebenswelten @sfb1567.bsky.social · 27d

#NextWeek
The ECF conference, »Reflecting Virtuality«, will take place on September 24 and 25 at Ruhr University Bochum.
Registration information: www.virtuelle-lebens...

Poster for the ECF conference, "Reflecting Virtuality," including the conference program.

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Remco Breuker 🟥 @remcobreuker.bsky.social · 27d

Mijn nieuwste voor @mareonline.nl: www.mareonline.nl/opinie/waaro...

Waarom ik me nooit bezondig aan Miss World-argumenten

‘Ik ben al meerdere malen gevraagd om mijn medeleven te uiten en mijn afschuw over de moord op Charlie Kirk uit te spreken – en met mij vele anderen.’

www.mareonline.nl

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · 28d

Congrats, Forest! Happy to hear that your effort on the book is paying off!

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Tom Apperley @t0mm7.bsky.social · Sep 9

UK Gamescenes Symposium will take place in Tampere/Hybrid on 16th September. Program and details for joining are attached. 1/2

Features work from skypeeps @digdems.bsky.social @nitessine.bsky.social @merilainen.bsky.social @rosgakori.bsky.social @vkankainen.bsky.social

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oh the history makes it even more interesting. Yes, would love to join you 🌸

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · Sep 8

Wait, I dont know what dinners but I wanna join! 😄

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Dr Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · Aug 27

The programme for the East Asian Pop Culture workshop, documenting 30 years of transformation is now out. It features @tbaudinette.bsky.social as the keynote speaker this coming Sept @ NUS, Singapore.
ari.nus.edu.sg/events/east-...

#EastAsianPopCulture #FanStudies #AsianStudies

Hand holding chopsticks with a disco ball at its end. With the words “East Asian Pop Culture: 30 Years of Transformation”

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Lukas R.A. Wilde @lukasrawilde.bsky.social · Sep 6

Jolly news: My new book with Jan-Noël Thon, "AI Aesthetics: AI-Generated Images between Artistics and Aisthetics", is now available as OPEN ACCESS with Routledge Focus. Check it all out:
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · Sep 6

Hahaha, looking forward to that email

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Joleen Blom @jjol33n.bsky.social · Sep 5

Congrats, Forest! :D

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