"Ludologica. Videogames d'Autore is pleased to announce its call for papers for a book on soccer games that will be published in Spring 2004," according to the blog MBF Today in an entry dated October 17. It concludes:
Possible topics may include (but are not limited to):
The logics and aesthetics of soccer simulations: "real", "televised" and "virtual" soccer East vs. West: Pro Evolution Soccer vs. Fifa Soccer A socio-historical approach digital soccer A study of of the multiple incarnations of soccer games and its conventions Simulated soccer fandom The role of product placement in soccer games Ideology and soccer games Interrelations between popular culture, globalization of sport culture and electronic simulations Virtual soccer tournaments Phenomenology of virtual soccer playing
