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30_01_2009 i am presenting a paper about "newsgaming and the future of journalism" at game focus germany, hannover.
28_01_2009 i am participating in a multidisciplinary team talk about public space at program art gallery, berlin.
27_01_2009 i am giving a guest lecture on the "representation and aestheticization of violence in video games" at the humboldt university, berlin.
13_01_2008 i put the drafts of my papers " insert credit to continue. narrative and commodity form in video games" and "computerspiele als erzählungen" online.
01_12_2008 i am speaking about newsgaming at the fachtagung jugendinformation, bonn.
27_11_2008 i am speaking about newsgaming at the ard/zdf-onlineworkshop, berlin.
20_11_2008 i am speaking about "creative leadership" at the creative clusters conference, glasgow.
16_10_2008 i will be participating in a panel on  "video game cultures, innovation, and user generated content" with hector postigo, aphra kerr and olli sotamaa at the aoir 9.0 conference, copenhagen.
06_10_2008 i am teaching students about "social and ethical aspects of video games" at mediadesignhochschule berlin.
27_09_2008 i will be speaking about cheating at subotron, vienna
06_09_2008 my book, playability, has been published by vdm.
04_09_2008 i will be speaking about newsgaming at the summer school on multimedia semantics, chania, greece.
07_08_2008 i am giving a seminar on "ludic media theory and virtual worlds" at the moving images and media rituals summer school in heidelberg
04_06_2008 i will speak about newsgaming at  the medienforum.nrw in cologne on june 11.
31_05_2008 i am speaking about "computer games and the future of literature" at the norsk litteraturfestival, lillehammer.
29_04_2008 new book chapter, "forbidden pleasures"
16_04_2008 my review of juul's half-real and bogost's unit operations has been published in ecs 11.2
12_03_2008 i will be speaking at re:publica'08 (berlin) on april 3, 4pm, and at the "paradies - konjunkturen eines religiösen topos" conference (hamburg) on april 5, 10.45am.
18_02_2008 i will be giving a paper at the clash of realities conference on thursday, march 6, 2.45pm.
18_12_2007 i added teaching info to this page
11_11_2007 new journal article: "invaded spaces"
30_10_2007 new journal article: "homo deludens"
19_10_2007 i will give a paper at the medienethik-symposium, hdm stuttgart, on december 5.
i will participate in the symposium "homo ludens calculans. computerspiele und kultur"  at the university of hildesheim on november 2, 11am-5pm.
i have added a new journal article, a conference paper, and two new book chapters to my publications page.
11_09_2007 on wednesday, september 26, 10.30am i will be presenting my paper at digra 2007.
07_08_2007 my article "das spiel vom tod" was just published in  kursbuch 167 ("kampfmaschinen").
16_07_2007 new co-authored book chapter: "adaptive game technology"
20_06_2007 new book chapter: "une phénomène de 'mods'"
18_06_2007 i will give a paper at fhtw berlin on thursday, june 28, 7pm.

my review of second person (edited by noah wardrip-fruin and pat harrigan) is online.
20_05_2007 my article on cheating as method has been published in jahrbuch für computerphilologie.
18_05_2007 my article on self-exploitation on the web has just been published in der freitag.
08_05_2007 my  report on the creative industries in europe conference was just published in telepolis.
07_05_2007 my (non-)review of mckenzie wark's gamer theory is now online at gameology.
03_04_2007 yesterday i talked to nicole simon about mmogs and utopian spaces.
19_03_2007 i will present a paper at re:publica - leben im netz (berlin) on thursday, april 12 friday, april 13.
09_02_2007 my article on the creative industries has just been published in der freitag.