[Air-L] PhD position Utrecht, the Netherlands Persuasive rhetoric in game design (GATE)

Fri Jun 19 13:17:42 PDT 2009

Dear list-members,

Please see below for a PhD opportunity in Utrecht on rhetoric in game design.

Kind regards,

Koen Leurs | Aio / PhD student 
OGC (Research Institute for Culture and History)| 
Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht | # 2.02 | (+31) 30 253 78 59 | (+31) 6 13108803 |

Current project: http://www.uu.nl/wiredup/

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-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Raessens, dr. J. (Joost)
Verzonden: vr 19-6-2009 16:36
Aan: MCW (Groep)
Onderwerp: PhD position Persuasive rhetoric in game design (GATE)

Dear Colleagues,

please spread around to possible interested candidates the announcement for a PhD position within the GATE research project Design rules for learning through simulated worlds.

PhD project: Persuasive rhetoric in game design

This project investigates how the medium-specificity of computer games make them suitable for persuasive purposes and to what extent and in what ways persuasive rhetorical strategies can be designed to convince serious-game players of the veracity of a certain point of view - as in games for change - or the necessity of a behavioral change - as in health games. Although a project description <http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/ogc/vacatures/2009/GATEWP42DEFJR-2009-06.pdf>  exists, candidates are also given the opportunity to develop a PhD proposal of their own. This project should fit into the research project Design rules for learning through simulated worlds.

For more information check: http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/ogc/vacatures/2009/phd_researcher_GATE2.htm. 

GATE website: http://gate.gameresearch.nl <http://gate.gameresearch.nl/> . 

Project description: http://gate.gameresearch.nl/index.php?pageID=53. 

Candidates have to apply before 9 August 2009.

Thanks, Joost Raessens

Prof. dr. Joost Raessens | Professor of Media Theory | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Faculty of Humanities | Utrecht University | Muntstraat 2A | Room 1.06 | NL-3512 EV Utrecht | T +31 30 253 6270 / +31 611 340 241 | F +31 30 253 6167 | J.Raessens at uu.nl <mailto:J.Raessens at uu.nl>  | www.raessens.nl <http://www.raessens.nl/>  |