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Websites belonging to researchers whose main research area is game studies.

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• Adams, Ernest W.

  http://www.designersnotebook.com/
  Game designer and theorist. Archive of columns published in Gamasutra, other articles, list of print publications, pages describing game philosophy.

• Bartle, Richard

  http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~rabartle/
  (Ln(x))3. The everyday weblog of MUD Scholar Richard Bartle.

• Burke, Timothy

  http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/
  Personal weblog of Terra Nova contributor. Includes links and other resources.

• Dekoven, Bernie

  http://www.deepfun.com/
  Articles, links, and weblog chronicling personal search for games and toys, ideas and innovations, people and events that enhance our capacity for having fun.

• Dibbell, Julian

  http://www.juliandibbell.com/
  Personal site contains articles and writing samples including research on MMORPG economies and "A Rape in Cyberspace."

• Dormans, Joris

  http://www.jorisdormans.nl/home.php
  Website of Dutch independent game scholar Joris Dormans. His articles on games and related subjects can be found here.

• Eladhari, Mirjam

  http://eladhari.blogspot.com/
  Gotland University in Sweden and University of Teesside in England. Personal weblog and notes for Ph.D. work on MMORPGs.

• Flanagan, Mary

  http://www.maryflanagan.com/
  Digital media artist, author, educator, and designer.

• Frasca, Gonzalo

  http://www.ludology.org/
  Independent. Weblog, articles, games. Research on political games, simulations, ludology.

• Funk, Jeanne B

  http://psychology.utoledo.edu/default.asp?id=99
  University of Toledo. Research on the impact of violence in computer and video games on children. List of publications.

• Juul, Jesper

  http://www.jesperjuul.dk/
  IT University of Copenhagen. Articles, reviews, thesis, games.

• Kennerly , David

  http://finegamedesign.com/
  Professional and academic articles, presentation, and interviews game design philosophy, MMORPG design, and game education.

• Kirksæther, Jørgen

  http://home.nvg.org/~kirk/
  Brief presentation of his doctoral thesis on videogame history and a few links.

• Klastrup, Lisbeth

  http://www.klastrup.dk/
  Researching the construction of story in virtual worlds. Background in hypertext theory. Weblog and publications.

• Klevjer, Rune

  http://www.uib.no/people/smkrk/
  Phd scholar at the University of Bergen, Norway. Abstract of his doctoral project: Play and Mediation in Computer Games, links to papers.

• Konzack, Lars

  http://konzack.blogspot.com/
  Aalborg University. Research on computer games and ludology. Weblog and articles.

• Kücklich, Julian

  http://www.playability.de/
  Graphic facilitation, graphic recording, visualizations, and sketchnotes.

• Mactavish, Andrew

  http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mactavis/
  Focuses on the performative and participatory elements of computer game play. Also researches hypertext theory and interactive, streaming video.

• Montfort, Nick

  http://nickm.com/
  Theorist and author/developer specialising in interactive fiction, often in the crossover between game and literature. Games, fiction, publications and links.

• Mortensen, Torill

  http://torillsin.blogspot.com/
  Volda University College. Weblog. Research on MUDs.

• Nowviskie, Bethany

  http://www.people.virginia.edu/~bpn2f
  University of Virginia. Dissertation deals with games and generative art in the context of conflicting design philosophies: hermeneutic and algorithmic. CV, descriptions of dissertation and projects, list of publications.

• Pearce, Celia

  http://www.cpandfriends.com/
  Interactive media designer who has also written on games. Papers and descriptions of projects are available.

• Poremba, Cindy

  http://shinyspinning.com/
  Weblog, articles and projects centered around multiplayer games, women and technology, emergence in communities and games and serial and reconfigurable narrative.

• Rau, Anja

  http://www.wordwrap.de/
  Germany. Weblog, articles, conference calls. Research on computer games and hypertext.

• Smith, Jonas Heide

  http://www.jonassmith.dk/weblog/
  PhD student at the IT University of Copenhagen. Personal weblog and CV.

• Taylor, Laurie

  http://www.laurientaylor.org/
  Professional and academic articles, presentations, and links to other resources.

• Tosca, Susana

  http://www.it-c.dk/people/tosca/
  IT University of Copenhagen. Articles, activities, teaching.

• Walker, Jill

  http://jilltxt.net/
  Weblog. Links to publications and other resources.

• Yee, Nicholas

  http://www.nickyee.com/
  Research is both quantative and qualitative, and is particularly centred on players of EverQuest and other Massive Multi-Player Online Games.

• Zimmerman, Eric

  http://www.ericzimmerman.com/
  Game designer, artist, and academic at NYU exploring the theory and practice of game design. Essays, links, teaching.

 

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