From the monthly archives: August 2007

David Shaffer lectures at DPU

By On 29/08/2007 ·

Recently, I attended a rather interesting talk by David Shaffer of Wisconsin on designing ‘games for learning’.
It took place at the Danish School of Education – University of Århus who (as an example to be followed, I think) have put the talk online. Here it is.

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End of level for Gonzalo Frasca

By On 28/08/2007 ·


Former Urugayan ITU resident and PhD program co-sufferer Gonzalo Frasca just (yesterday) told the world how games, play, and rhetorics are connected thus earning himself the non-refundable title of PhD.
Because of exams I could only attend the esteemed candidate’s presentation (thus missing out on the [...]

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Anne Mette Thorhauge defends game PhD

By On 24/08/2007 ·

Anne Mette Thorhauge of Copenhagen University just defended her (Danish) dissertation entitled The Computer Game as Communication Form. Topic-wise, Anne Mette’s work seems quite close to my own, so I look forward to reading her text soon. I might, perhaps, disagree with her conceptualization of rules as something “established and maintained [...]

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PhD scholarships available at ITU

By On 23/08/2007 ·

The ITU has just posted a number of PhD scholarships.
You may be most interested in project proposals within the Innovative Communication area; for instance Uses of online media genres in political communication.
Send forth the applications.

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New essay on games in culture

By On 21/08/2007 ·

I’ve just published a brief essay on Game Research entitled No Medium is an Island: An essay on the Video Game and its cultural neighborhood. It makes comparisons between the cultural history of video games and that of film. The comment field at the bottom of the page is open :-)

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