The Permanent Game
Digital Leisure and the Hyperconnected Society
This lecture series reflects on the role of digital leisure in a complex reality governed by the various logics of play, simulation, and permanent connection.
Alessandro Baricco and Jorge Carrión
Augmented Humanity
In the present situation of health emergency and restrictions on collective life, the Italian novelist and essayist Alessandro Baricco, and the writer Jorge Carrión will speak from their respective confinements about this unprecedented state of affairs and its meaning and consequences at the global level.
Pilar Lacasa and Gregorio Luri
Expressions of the Future
Pilar Lacasa, Professor of Communications, and Gregorio Luri, educator, speak about the new communities being created by digital leisure, and the challenges they pose for the educational world.
Diego Redolar Ripoll
The Playful Brain
Diego Redolar Ripoll, expert and researcher in cognitive neuroscience, analyses the neural mechanisms underlying videogames.
Peter Vorderer: Permanent Connection, Infinite Interaction
In the hyperconnected society, there is practically no time for inactivity. Peter Vorderer, professor of Media and Communication Studies and working in the area of the psychology of entertainment, describes how permanent connection has deeply changed ways of communicating and interacting with others...
Cassandra Khaw
The Virtual Body
Videogame scriptwriter and author Cassandra Khaw, one of the most interesting young voices in terror and science fiction literature, reads a story about the capacity for transformation of the virtual body.