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So, I have finally gotten around to putting up a description of my project here. Look and you will see!

I am also happy to announce that I am part of a great panel at the forthcoming Association of Internet Researchers (a.o.i.r.) conference “Internet Research 9.0: Rethinking Community, Rethinking Place” in Copenhagen in October. I will be in it together with Malene Charlotte Larsen, Thomas Ryberg, Anders Albrechtslund (all from Aalborg University) and Rikke Frank Jørgensen (Roskilde University and Danish Institute for Human Rights). More information about the conference should soon be available at the website.

I recently had an abstract accepted for the conference “Under the Mask: Perspectives on the Gamer” at the University of Bedfordshire in June. I am really looking forward to this event, and the themes described at the website fit very nicely with my interests. Judging from the list of members of the Facebook group, it looks like mostly Brits are going to participate - but hopefully I won’t end up being the only one there speaking funny English.

My paper for this conference will deal with some of the theoretical considerations of my PhD project. I want to discuss the benefits and limitations of adapting literary theory - especially Paul Ricoeur’s theories on mimesis, narrative and identity - in order to understand the nature of the creative process of gamers producing, exchanging and negotiating narratives around the game.

Today, I finally got to move into my new office. It’s bright and spacious, and I am happy to have a room of my own - and with a view as well (which, by the way, is pretty similar to Malene’s).

So, more than a month has already passed since I officially began my PhD studies. I have been occupied with reading, speculating, planning, and generally, finding my bearings in the academic landscape. Even though I still have three years to go (minus one month…), I suspect that all that time will fly more quickly than you’d think.

My next deadlines include some conference abstracts and a detailed PhD project plan, which has to be handed in before May 1st. In connection with this, I am also working on a more detailed description of my project to be posted here. So stay tuned