Jonas Heide Smiths notesblog

… min sporadiske og let sprogforvirrede weblog. Jeg har en ph.d. i spil fra IT-Universitetet i København, er til stadighed på sporet af de nye medier og bliver underligt træt når folk bruger “skal” som infinitiv.
Det er blevet til indlæg siden 2004. På det seneste er jeg dog gået lidt mikro ovre på Facebook.
jonas@autofire.dk

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 subsequent Q&A fun) but what I heard seemed both coherent [...]

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 by communication”, but it [...]

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.

I am in excellent company on the 07 GDC Game Studies Download Top 10, as covered by Raph Koster. Here are the slides. The esteemed scholars are referring to my dissertation.