Wednesday, 13 March 2019 at 4:00 pm – Wednesday, 13 March 2019 at 6:00 pm

Games and Business

Date: Wednesday 13th March 2019

Time: 4pm - 6pm

Location: Room 234, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University

Tickets: Free - Find out more here

In this session, Dr Laura Mitchell will outline the appeal games have for business, particularly in the context of increasing motivation and productivity through affective experience. Asking if this appeal is simply the latest trend, the session aims to answer whether play is now (or indeed always has been) the work of employees, entrepreneurs and professionals.

The Manchester Games Studies Network (MGSN), established at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2016 by Sam Illingworth and Paul Wake, is an interdisciplinary research group working on games and play. Our focus is on both analogue and digital games, and the MGSN team brings together academics and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including Computing, Education, English, History, Media Studies, Psychology, Science Communication, and Sociology. Find out more here.