In this first episode of this podcast on mediated intimacies, I talk with Susana Tosca, associate professor at Roskilde University in Denmark. We talk about otome games, Japanese video games in which women can date a pool of handsome men.&nbsp;What are otome games exactly, and why do we play them, and how can we study them in the field of game studies? You'll find Susana's answers in this episode!
Games:
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 <li>Angelique (Ruby Party, 1994)</li>
 <li>Hakuoki (Idea Factory, 2008)</li>
 <li>Psychedelica of the Black Butterfly (Idea Factory, 2018)</li>
 <li>Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Chunsoft, 2010) &nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
 <li><a href="https://shallwedate.jp/en/free.html">Shall We Date? series&nbsp;</a></li>
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Books and articles:&nbsp;
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 <li>Reading the Romance (Radway, 1984)</li>
 <li>Transmedial worlds in everyday life (Tosca and Klastrup, 2019)&nbsp;</li>
 <li><a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-7857-1_8">Appropriating the Shinsengumi: Hakuoki Fan Fiction as Transmedial/Transcultural Exploration</a> (Tosca, 2021)</li>
 <li>Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (Mulvey, 1975) --on the male gaze in cinema</li>
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Episode 2 - The Fourth Wall in Games with Agata Waszkiewicz

In this podcast I talk with invited experts about the different shapes and forms in which we engage with affection and intimacy through media platforms and technology, such as social media (like Instagram or Facebook, or Tinder), novels, television series, or video games to voice assistants like Alexa or the Google Assistant. This podcast discusses why, how, and what we do when we use all kinds of media and technology to create intimacy with ourselves and others, whether these others are fictional or not.