[Air-L] Announcement: PhD course, IT University of Copenhagen, May 26-28
T.L. Taylor
tltaylor at itu.dk
Tue Mar 9 04:08:41 PST 2010
The IT University of Copenhagen will be offering a PhD course
entitled, "Acting together on technological playing fields: Computer
games, e-sports, and team play" from May 26-28. The course will focus
on exploring the artefacts, structures, practices and cultures of
team-based computer games through a sociology of games and sports.
Students will share their research on the subject and discuss/engage
with a collection of literatures and questions related to team games
with the purpose of gaining some analytical and methodological tools
to critically think with throughout the remainder of their research.
The course will be taught of several scholars working specifically in
the area of team play, e-sports, and the sociology of sports:
T.L. Taylor, IT University of Copenhagen
Belinda Wheaton, University of Brighton
Henry Lowood, Stanford University
Garry Whannel, University of Bedfordshire
Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, University of Exeter
We are also very excited to have built into the course a quite unique
final day (May 28) consisting of a free public workshop on pro-gaming
with an exciting group of e-sports professionals
(http://esportseuropeanedition.wordpress.com/). (A separate
announcement for that will follow.)
Full details about the course can be found at
http://www1.itu.dk/sw132466.asp. Please feel free to distribute
widely and drop a line with any questions.
Look forward to seeing some of you in Copenhagen!
TL
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T.L. Taylor, Associate Professor
Center for Computer Games Research
IT University of Copenhagen
Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark
+45 7218 5035 (tele) / +45 7218 5001 (fax)
tltaylor at itu.dk / http://www.tltaylor.com
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