CRDM 2013 Emerging Genres Symposium Keynote: Neil Randall
Channel: NC State Doctoral Program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media (CRDM)
Date: 2013-06-14

Neil Randall's "The Lord of the Rings as Videogame: Challenges in Adaptation from Venerated Source to Anticipated Genre" keynote talk for the 2013 Symposium on Emerging Genres, Forms, Narratives—in New Media Environments. Held by the North Carolina State University program in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media.

Neil Randall is Associate Professor of English at the University of Waterloo and Director of the university's Games Institute. In 2012, he was awarded an SSHRC Parternship Grant to develop a games research network called IMMERSe (Interactive and Multi-Modal Research Syndicate). This project establishes a network of seven universities and six industry partners to conduct research into player experience and behavior, with studies focusing on player immersion, player presence, player relationships, and player addiction. The project has received a total of $5.8 million in funding and reaches across disciplines to include scholars from the arts, social sciences, engineering, and computer science. 

Video shared under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. 2013. Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media program at North Carolina State University.

Symposium site: http://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/sites/symp...

CRDM site: http://crdm.chass.ncsu.edu/

See also:
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/waterl...

http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/news_room...