Category Archives: Conference

Virtual Worlds and Education Panel

This session, in addition to Raph’s talk, are the main draws for me at State of Play 09. Primarily because Jim Bower is on it. I was sitting with Jim for Raph’s talk, and as people sat down he warned … Continue reading

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Raph Koster keynote

Interesting intro note: D. Hunter continues to reflect that “I’m happy the hype around virtual worlds is finally over”. On one hand I can agree. In this crowd, the hype is definitely over. Maybe even in the news, the hype … Continue reading

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A short note on State of Play 09 posts

I tend to take notes in my blog at conferences. It primarily gives me a way to capture some of the more interesting things I learn at conferences in a chronological order, plus it is searchable and databased so I … Continue reading

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“Graybeards” Q&A

Dispel myths that seem to be held by the graybeards: – majority of us are not fighting with our supervisor about the legitimacy of using games – many of us are exploring things other than the traditional, tenure track research … Continue reading

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Professionalism and jobs for virtual worlds researchers/professionals

Things aren’t really changing that fast…people writing about MUDs and other, similar environments for years. – we just have VERY short attention spans Need to build collegiality – be happy similar research is going on and get to know those … Continue reading

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Morning debrief

Lot’s of great thinking outside my specific field. Seems to be LOTS of qualitative focused studies focusing on politics, governance, intimacy, work, play, consumerism, gender, identity, and much more. I find myself in the minority in terms of my focus: … Continue reading

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Small Group Session

With Thomas Malaby and Bart Simon as ‘graybeards’ leading the panel Studies: 1. High-end raiding guilds, focused on raiding baselines for getting into it. 2. Creating and studying a web-based game to focus on technology governance policy. 3. WoW ethnography … Continue reading

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State of Play Graduate Symposium 09

I’m at the State of Play 2009 graduate symposium today which is shaping up to be an interesting experience. It appears they are looking to do an ARG of sorts, but I’m not sure it starts until tomorrow at the … Continue reading

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Drexel Online Learning Conference

I’m presenting tomorrow at the Drexel Online Learning Conference. The talk will focus on my experiences last semester teaching IST 110: Information, People and Technology. This post is primarily to support the talk with additional resources. IST 110 Syllabus Contains: … Continue reading

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Bloomsburg University Slides

Slides from today’s talk are online in PDF format. Nice to be back around IIT alums and other folks doing excellent work in various fields. It felt a little strange at first being an academic talking to a corporate audience, … Continue reading

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