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Hi!

I would hereby like to apply for an open position on the DiGRA board.

My name is Jesper Juul, and I am a Visiting Arts Professor at the New York University Game 
Center.

I have previously worked at the IT University of Copenhagen and at the GAMBIT lab at 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I have also spent some parts of my life working with 
game development.

I run a blog called The Ludologist that is meant to serve as a resource for people interested in 
Video Game Studies.

I am an editorial board member at Game Studies and Games & Culture.

In terms of research, I have a constantly changing set of research interests. I originally worked 
much on the question of games and narratives, later I moved more into game aesthetics and 
ontology, and lately I have been examining both the design and audiences of casual games.


Here are some things I would like to work on as a board member:

-Have more small-scale DiGRA-related events such as seminars and PhD mentoring.

-Streamline the reviewing and publishing process at DiGRA conferences. This includes making 
sure that the conference proceedings will always be easily available on Amazon and so on; 
making sure that all papers receive at least two sets of written comments; standardizing on 
new citation style, preferably the author-date system.

-Find ways to improve communication and collaboration between the different disciplines that 
attend DiGRA.