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Dissertation V0.9

By On 29/09/2006 ·


I’ve uploaded the version of my dissertation that was handed in final version (4.5 MB PDF).
Since I’ll have the chance to make post-defence edits, this is technically a draft version.

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As we may watch

By On 28/09/2006 ·

Ex-co-PhD student Martin Sønderlev Christensen (of nowuseit fame) defends his thesis masterpiece at ITU tomorrow (14:00, Auditorium 4 or 2).

The thesis is here (draft version).

Update:

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The abstract reads:

Abstract
This dissertation offers a cultural theoretical interpretation [...]

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Sing, O goddess

By On 24/09/2006 ·

All good things – and apparently also the barely bearable ones – must come to an end.

As implied, my dissertation was sent on its merry way through the labyrinthine ways of the Danish PhD system, beyond human interference. That is well and good.

In recent weeks I’ve been in recovery spending much-appreciated (by [...]

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The beast is born

By On 29/08/2006 ·

No Russian men’s choirs appeared and the sound of trumpets seemed distant indeed, but my dissertation epos made its bumpy way from the smoking remnants of my brain, into a 10mb PDF, out of a (now altogether disoriented) Canon printer and to the kind people of “Facilities Management” [...]

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Dissertation abstract beta

By On 04/08/2006 ·

Here’s my current thinking on what it is I’m doing…

Working title
Plans and Purposes: How Videogame Goals Shape Player Behaviour

Abstract
Games shape player behaviour by presenting goals which players attempt to fulfil. This is the most common “folk” theory of the relationship between game design and [...]

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