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PhD defense. Rikke Toft Nørgård: Gameplay Corporeality: the corporeal-locomotive dimension in gameplay activity and experience

[ 28. November 2012; 10:00 to 13:00. ] NB: The time of the defense is moved to 10-13 (same date and place)
Rikke Toft Nørgård defends her Ph.D. thesis on digital games, gameplay and gameplayers entitled Gameplay Corporeality: the corporeal-locomotive dimension in gameplay activity and experience

28 November 2012, 10-13

The Peter Bøgh Andersen Auditorium, Nygaard bygn. Helsingforsgade 14, 8200 Aarhus N

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Gameplay Corporeality: the corporeal-locomotive [...]

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New book: Playing Computer Games: Somatic Experience and Experience of the Somatic

Henrik Smed Nielsen
Digital Aesthetic Research Center, 2012, 278 pp.
DKK 150,- / EUR 20,-
ISBN 87-91810-21-3
Available here as paperback: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Playing-Computer-Games-Somatic-Experience/dp/8791810213/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347860511&sr=8-1
Download pdf here.
First written as a PhD dissertation in 2011, the book investigates the bodily dimension of the computer game experience – based on the overarching thesis that computer game-play is a bodily founded and bodily savoured activity. [...]

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Ph.d-forsvar: Playing Computer Games: Somatic Experience and Experience of the Somatic

[ 30. November 2011; 13:00 to 16:00. ]

Med henblik på erhvervelsen af ph.d.-graden i Informations- og Medievidenskab forsvarer cand.mag. Henrik Smed Nielsen sin afhandling:

Playing Computer Games: Somatic Experience and Experience of the Somatic.

At spille computerspil er en aktivitet, der kræver spillerens fysiske tilstedeværelse foran skærmen;
en tilstedeværelse, hvor ’simple’ tryk på controlleren vækker spilverdenen til live og forandrer oplevelsen af tid og sted. [...]

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