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Monthly Archives: May 2012

PhD Defense Douglas Rushkoff

We are proud to announce that Douglas Rushkoff will defend his PhD dissertation on June 25. Below you can find the description of his thesis, titled Monopoly moneys: the media environment of corporatism and the player’s way out, from the Utrecht University website: By analysing corporatism through the lens of media ecology, Douglas Rushkoff shows how…

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The Citizen Scientist on the Move: Digital Play, Politics and Epistemology Conference

In June 2012 the GAP organized The Citizen Scientist on the Move: Digital Play, Politics and Epistemology! conference. The conference was a two day invitation-only academic conference at Utrecht University and an open workshop day at Waag’s Theatrum Anatomicum in Amsterdam. The conference was the result of our GATE-funded Knowledge Transfer Project in cooperation with 7scenes and Waag Society….

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