Made the DiGRA Deadline

What a week, lots of stuff happening. First, the Cultural Studies Review has asked me to review an article on videogames for them. Its just a small gig, but I hope a promise of things to come: (1) more refereeing for me (2) more articles on videogames in 'straight' journals. I also submitted an abstract for the fibreculture 'after convergence' issue, which was pretty rushed so I think has a pretty slender chance of getting accepted (but the awesome thing is, if it doesn't get accepted I don't have to write it). And I got my review of Henry Jenkins Convergence Culture in to Media International Australia (should be appearing in August). Then on friday I managed to get DiGRA in, its a substantially revised version of 'Everyday Empowerment', the paper that I presented on the 9/2 at Victoria University, it was submitted paper number 153 - only 50 papers will be accepted, so its very competitive. Great thing is its in Japan, so if I don't get accepted I don't have to figure out how to get there!

On top of that I started teaching at the University of Melbourne last week, and applied for two jobs, one at Swinburne University of Technology and one at RMIT University. The Swinburne one was for a position (level A) in the Games program, the RMIT job was in the Communications area, focusing on teaching the masters program. Also got a rejection letter from RMIT about the job I applied for in the games program there.