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AoIR 2009 IR10 Presentation

Here’s my presentation from the Internet Researchers conference. The conference was pretty good. Enjoyed the panels. Got some good questions. next year is in Sweden so I probably won’t be attending but 2011 is in Seattle so I hope to attend that one.

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Videogame advertising in the news…

I have been meaning to write a post about my paper, “The Disappearance and Reappearance and Disappearance of the Player in Videogame Advertising that I wrote for the Digra conference last year. It has gotten a bit of a buzz lately (well as much buzz as a conference paper can get…) including almost making it [...]

Tokyo Trip DiGRA Final Thoughts

Funny how being away for a week means you are buried under a mountain of grading.

So Japan and DiGRA was really fun. After about three days I was ready to come home though. There were lots of interesting papers at the conference. Although I’m more of a qualitiative kind of guy it seems as [...]

Tokyo Trip DiGRA summary

I didn’t get around to posting for every day of the confernce so here’s a general overview of my experiences.

On the first full day of DiGRA 2007 I gave my paper and it was givetastic. They say it is better to give than receive… I didn’t do a very good job of fitting it [...]

tokyo day 2 Akihabara 011

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Yesterday I made my way to Akihabara. It is twice as big and twice as crazy as you could [...]

Tokyo Game Show Videos

Tokyo Game Show

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So when I got up I decided to try to go out to the Tokyo Game Show. Luckily, I didn’t [...]

I’m here

ok Japan. I’m here. Where were my dancing and singing kids? Is that tomorrow?

I’m at the hotel thanks to some guy who helped me navigate the Tokyo subway (we ain’t got no subway in Indiana!). After that I”m not sure if I can make my way to the Tokyo Game Show tomorrow or not.

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