[Air-L] Two dissertations on the video game industry

[Peter Zackariasson]

Hello,

This semester two excellent dissertations on the video game industry has
been published from Swedish Universities. So if you have any interest in
this industry, these two are worth while checking up.

Sandquist, Ulf (2010). Digitala drömmar och industriell utveckling: En
studie av den svenska dator- och tv-spelsindustrin 1980-2010. Department of
Economic history. Umeå University, Sweden. (eng. trans. Digital dreams and
Engineering: A study of the Swedish computer and video game industry,
1980-2010)
Eng. abstract and thesis can be fund at:
http://www.avhandlingar.se/avhandling/228ab0a816/

Dymek, Mikolaj (2010). Industrial Phantasmagoria: Subcultural Interactive
Cinema Meets Mass-Cultural Media of Simulation. The Royal Institute of
Technology, Sweden.
Eng. abstract and thesis can be fund at:
http://www.avhandlingar.se/avhandling/cf86a62e02/










Peter Zackariasson, Ph.D.
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Gothenburg Research Institute
University of Gothenburg
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