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I am looking for volunteers to help with some social issue game-based research projects.  Please contact me for more information.

The Journal of Virtual Worlds Research (http://jvwresearch.org) is soliciting “think pieces” in response to the following questions:
“In thinking about the spaces of virtual worlds, and the practices we witness within them, how can we define what counts as culture? Can we see any common cultural trends emerging in different virtual worlds, or are practices as disparate [...]

So it’s the end of another busy semester.  Life’s been really good lately.  Thank God   I’ve been productive — submitting papers to conferences, submitting job applications, writing, desiging, coding..  also setting aside time for important things – e.g. time with family, close friends, and my wonderful girlfriend.  I finished designing and coding one of the games [...]

I’m scheduled to defend my dissertation proposal next Wednesday.  Here’s the abstract for my proposal:
          Serious Games are digital games with an educational, informative, or persuasive goal beyond mere entertainment (Abt, 2002).  They are promising because they often contain features that appear to be useful for learning (Squire, 2004), eliciting behavioral or attitudinal change (Yee, 2007) [...]