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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.