{"id":62,"date":"2004-02-14T11:52:57","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T09:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=62"},"modified":"2004-02-14T11:52:57","modified_gmt":"2004-02-14T09:52:57","slug":"shedding-the-stigma-yes-thats-a-phd-in-game-theory-hanging-on-the-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/02\/14\/shedding-the-stigma-yes-thats-a-phd-in-game-theory-hanging-on-the-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Shedding the stigma: Yes, that’s a Ph.D in game theory hanging on the wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Wadham’s Associated Press article on video games research<\/a> is making the rounds.
\nHere’s a list <\/a> of the places where it was printed.<\/p>\n

Of course I wrote pages of brilliant answers to the journalist and only ended up getting a few lines – but that’s just the rules of the game. So yours truly is mentioned as follows:<\/p>\n

In Copenhagen, Denmark, the IT University has established the Center of Computer Games Research, which just graduated its first Ph.D., Jesper Juul. <\/p>\n

Juul appears to be the first person anywhere to ever get his doctorate exclusively in video game studies. His dissertation “Half-Real: Video Games Between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds” seeks to define what video games are, and how academics ought to go about studying them. <\/p>\n

“There is an interesting naughtiness in taking something that many people consider unimportant and frivolous and then creating very detailed theory about it,” Juul said. But, he added: “I would say that video games merit much more analysis than novels or movies simply because they are less understood.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Terra Nova has a discussion<\/a> about what I really am the first Ph.D. in.<\/p>\n

As Greg Lastowka notes, this really is a defining moment of mainstream awareness of what we are doing.
\nAnd we apparently continue to be a good story – the juxtaposition of “taking play seriously” just always has that catchy headline quality. Which is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nick Wadham’s Associated Press article on video games research is making the rounds. Here’s a list of the places where it was printed. Of course I wrote pages of brilliant answers to the journalist and only ended up getting a few lines – but that’s just the rules of the game. So yours truly is … Continue reading “Shedding the stigma: Yes, that’s a Ph.D in game theory hanging on the wall”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}