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Who am I?
Gerhard Pölsterl, historian, pedagogue and games enthusiast.
What’s my job?
I’m the officer for media and pedagogy at the department Youth Policy of the Federal Chancellery of Austria. My responsibilities include topics such as digital media, safer internet and gaming. Therefore I manages the “Office for Media and Pedagogy” (Medien-Jugend-Info im BKA) and and organize the annual international conference “FROG -Future and Reality of Gaming” of the “Federal Office for the Positive Assessment of Digital Games” (Bundesstelle für die Positivprädikatisierung von digitalen Spielen im BKA) I’m also holding classes regarding „digitalisation, media literacy, pedagogy and teaching“ at the University of Vienna, Institute for Teacher Education.
Why am I involved with the FROG?
FROG lays the base of our other projects regarding digital games and connects the big scientific players as well as junior researchers and pedagogical practitioners, which is a great mix to learn from each other!
Alltime favourite videogame?
DSF `98 Soccer manager!
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Wer bin ich?
Gerhard Pölsterl, Historiker, Pädagoge und Games-Enthusiast.
Was mache ich?
Als Fachreferent für Medienpädagogik der Abteilung Jugendpolitik im Bundeslanzleramt bin ich für Themen wie digitale Medien, Safer Internet und Gaming zuständig. In meinen Verantwortungsbereich fällt die Medien-Jugend-Info im BKA und die Organisation der FROG, welche als Teil der Bundesstelle für die Positivprädikatisierung von digitalen Spielen im BKA die Basis für die dortige Arbeit legt. Nebenbei bin ich Lehrbeauftragter am Institut für LehrerInnenbildung der Universität Wien im Bereich der „Digitalen Grundbildung“.
Warum engagiere ich mich für die FROG?
Die FROG dient mit ihren Erkenntnissen als Basis für viele weitere Projekte des BKA und vereint Koryphäen dieses Bereichs mit Nachwuchsforschenden und Praktikern/innen aus der außerschulischen und Schulischen Jugendarbeit. Hier kann man voneinander lernen!
Alltime favourite videogame?
Der DSF `98 Fußballmananger!
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Felix Schniz is the director of studies and co-founder of the master’s programme Game Studies and Engineering at the University of Klagenfurt. He originally graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in English and American studies from the University of Mannheim, where he subsequently joined the master’s programme Cultural Transformations of the Modern Age: Literature and Media. With a thesis exploring the metamodern tendencies of the third-person shooter Spec Ops: The Line (2012), he concluded the programme with excellence. Today, Felix Schniz furthermore is a PhD candidate and research assistant at University of Klagenfurt, as well head of the Klagenfurt Critical Game Lab. The focus of his dissertation are experiential dimensions of videogames.
Wilfried Elmenreich is Professor of Smart Grids at the Institute of Networked and Embedded Systems at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. He studied computer science at the Vienna University of Technology and in 2008 received the venia docendi for technical computer science. In 2007 he moved to the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt as Senior Researcher. After a visiting professorship at the University of Passau Elmenreich in 2013, he followed the call to the University of Klagenfurt. Wilfried Elmenreich is a member of the Senate at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Counselor of the IEEE Student Branch, and is involved in the master program on Game Studies and Engineering. He is the publisher of several books and has published over 150 articles in the field of networked and embedded systems. Elmenreich researches intelligent energy systems, self-organizing systems and technical applications of swarm intelligence.