Daniel Vella (Author) Daniel Vella, born in 1984, teaches game studies at the Institute of Digital Games at the University of Malta. He read for his PhD at the IT University of Copenhagen, focusing on the development of a theory of ludic subjectivity. His research interests include the phenomenology of virtual world experience, place and architecture in games and aesthetics in digital games. He regularly publishes in journals such as Game Studies, the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research and Techne': Research in Philosophy and Technology. Mathias Fuchs (Edited by) Mathias Fuchs (Dr.) is an artist, musician and media scholar. He is the director of the Gamification Lab at Leuphana University in Lüneburg. He is a pioneer in the field of game art and is a leading scholar in game studies and directs a project on Gamification that is funded by the German Research Council (2018-2021).
Digital Culture and Society (DCS) : Vol. 10, Issue 2/2024 - Ruins and the Contemporary