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DiGRA: Candidate for Executive Board - Jesper Juul
2009-08-29 18:07 | Posted by jpzagal | Permanent Link | Association NewsAn election of the new executive board of DiGRA will take place at the Association's AGM held at DIGRA 2009 on 02/09/09 at 7.00pm at Brunel University, Uxbridge UK. The new board has the important role of assuring that DiGRA contines to flourish and that it is best equipped to serve its members. We will be posting the applications received on this website in the order that they're received. Our intention is to help DiGRA members meet the candidates and learn of their plans and vision for the association.
The following is Jesper Juul's application:
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.