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game thesis

Kristine J¯rgensen’s MA thesis, Aporia & epiphany in context : computer game agency in “Baldur`s Gate II” and “Heroes of Might and Magic IV”, is likely to interest some of you.

last year

I was busy this time last year too.

reading magic-tree.com

It’s ages since I last read magic-tree.com, and I’m loving the way it merges the reader (me) with Afra, throwing me from textual position to textual position. In the sequence where Simon and Magalie find Afra’s website, I’m behind the computer screen […]

defining art

We see so resolutely from our own perspective. How can we do otherwise? Digital art is all interface, defined entirely by the experience of its viewing or use. So say Bolter and Gromala on page 11 of their new book, writing as […]

what am i?

“Mummy, am I Norwegian or English?” My daughter is seven, and earlier that day a couple of the older girls at school had asked her the question she now asked me. She couldn’t answer the girls at school. It sure is confusing […]

not this

Jamie’s link made me laugh so much I’m putting it on the main page for other unfortunate soon-to-defend their PhDs to enjoy: Things Not To Do During Your Defence. [Update: Torill, upon reading this list, would like to point out that she […]

shared quiet

We left the audio on as we worked. I read and searched to the sound of his typing, then later I typed to the sound of occasional outbursts of indignation as he graded papers. Sometimes we shared something we’d found, or thought, […]

efficiency

Look at that. The University newsletter, PÂ H¯yden, has taken a quote from my remediated-into-website radio interview, combined it with a couple of sentences from the press release and hey presto I’m in the newsletter. Journalism is so efficient, I’m impressed!

appropriate that

Mary Flanagan’s syllabus for her Web Production class is a riot!

outfits

I just realised I have to figure out what to wear for my trial lecture, too! Would it be inappropriate to wear the same outfit as I’ll wear the next day? Should the trial lecture attire be a little less formal than […]