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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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Vacancies: 2 PhD Researchers ERC Project ‘Charting the Digital’ (2,0 fte)

Good news: Sybille Lammes’ Charting the Digital research project is now looking to fill two PhD positions! Here’s the text for the job as found on the Utrecht University vacancies website: Job description Two PhD positions are now available as part of the ERC funded project ”Charting the Digital: Digital Mapping Practices as New Media…

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NEWMEDIA_studies Magazine issue #5: Serious Gaming

The students of our New Media & Digital Culture MA program have put together a special issue on games for the NEWMEDIA_studies Magazine called Serious Gaming! Edited by Eline Muijres and Anna Sonnemans, this issue is, however, not all about what has become known as “serious games”. Instead, also expect articles on a wide variety…

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Think Design Play: DiGRA 2011 Conference papers online

The digital conference proceedings of the Think Design Play: DiGRA 2011 Conference, held recently in Hilversum here in The Netherlands, are now online. We were fortunate that many papers of our team, our affiliated researchers and (former) students were accepted. Here’s an overview: Lammes, Sybille – “The map as playground: Locationbased games as cartographical practices”…

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Towards an International Master Degree Game Studies

The Executive Board (College van Bestuur) of Utrecht University has awarded the Faculty of Humanities a subsidy (30.000 euro) to develop an International Master Degree Game Studies. In the academic year 2011-2012 we will organize expert meetings with game research groups of the IT University of Copenhagen (Msc in IT: Games), the University of Potsdam (Digital…

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Handbook of Computer Game Studies paperback out now.

The Handbook of Computer Game Studies, edited by our own Joost Raessens and Jeffrey Goldstein for The MIT Press and first released in hardcover in 2005, is finally on sale in paperback edition. For those who do not own a copy yet, here’s the book description from the MIT Press website. The table of content…

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Videogame Music Symposium

On September 13 2011, Utrecht University hosted the Videgame Music Symposium aimed at new media, game studies & musicology students and researchers as well as videogame designers and composers. From the symposium website: With internationally renowned speakers from the fields of game studies and game music research, game designers and students, this one-day symposium at Utrecht…

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Teun Dubbelman receives Fulbright scholarship

The Center for the Study of Digital Games and Play congratulates our own Teun Dubbelman with receiving the prestigious Fulbright scholarship! From the press release: Teun Dubbelman MA, PhD candidate at the Research Institute for History and Culture (OGC), has received the prestigious Fulbright scholarship for PhD fellows. He will spend three months at the…

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DNB Magazine focuses on the Dutch game industry

  The recent issue of the magazine published by De Nederlandsche Bank (the Dutch central bank) focuses on the Dutch game industry. It shows how the 160 companies working on games in the Netherlands right now already have a healthy 150 milj. euro turnover. According to the article however, the industry needs to get more…

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