tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26384162026-04-03T01:19:12.955+02:00"Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers." ~ Isaac AsimovTorillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07428251841060676279noreply@blogger.comBlogger2912125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2638416.post-87434540190644746742025-10-08T15:00:00.000+02:002025-10-08T15:00:00.232+02:00

 I have reached an age when my peers keep repeating this. I also experience it, mainly when it comes to reading and general curiosity about society. Students do not have the kind of academic interests we had, they read very little, and they have other interests, the study itself is more about getting a relevant education for a job, and less about academic exploration.For me, being at the

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 Nyhetsbildet er plutselig preget av utdanningsstoff, og alle har meninger om skillet mellom juks, forskningsjuks, og slurv. En minister har gått av, en annen står på kanten av stupet mens en komite vurderer masteroppgaven hennes. Sjokkerende? Ikke hvis du har fulgt med på hvordan utdanningspolitikken har forandret seg de siste 10-15 årene. I dag er universitetene under press til å

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 The Northern Star Symposium 2024: Mending May 6th – 8th, Bodø, Norway   Call for presentations: A more sustainable future is one where we consume less and mend more. This mending can be very literal, the mending of clothes, of fences and of local environments, but it can also be used about mending relationships, friendships, communities and systems.   Mending is an act

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 2023 is the year when I have been fully integrated at Nord, all year, 100% position. Moving this far north was a challenge, and it is not immediately the best for my physical health. Mentally I am doing better though: I get to live with my husband all year, every day, we have bought a beautiful place to live that we both rejoice at every day, and working at Nord University means much

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 Northern Star Symposium 2023 Disintegration   22-24th of May Nord University, Bodø The Northern Star Symposium is a three-day academic gathering in Bodø, a Norwegian city just north of the Arctic Circle. The goal of this symposium is to have a place to discuss topics and questions that are not among the mainstream of conferences and journals, a place to test out new ideas and

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Kvinnesykdommer. Vi vet at de får mindre oppmerksomhet, mindre ressurser og blir tatt mindre alvorlig enn sykdommer som rammer men i sin beste alder. Dette gjelder ikke minst hvis de i tillegg er usynlige for det blotte øye, kommer langsomt snikende og angriper kvinner som ikke lenger er så attraktive på alle markedene - voksne, aldrende kvinner. Nå har det endelig blitt brukt penger og tid

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 Today we are very quick to throw the term "witchhunt" out there. I thought I would share a resource for those who want to make sure they are acutally using this term correctly, when they claim to be the victim of a witchhunt.At Trolldomsarkivet you find the background material for the Norwegian witchcraft processes. Norway was not the most active country when it comes to prosecuting witches

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 Since there will be another symposium in Bodø this autumn, I was looking to create an electronically generated art work that could be meaningful to the topic at hand. The Night Cafe creator studio came up with this work from the prompt "Obscure secrets by the fjord".

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 Northern Star symposium 17th-19th of October 2022 Nord University, Bodø   The Northern Star Symposium is a three day academic gathering in Bodø, a Norwegian city just north of the artic circle. The goal of this symposium is to have a place to discuss topics and questions that are not among the mainstream of conferences and journals, a place to test out new ideas and listen to fresh

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 Dear friends and readers, I have the pleasure to extend the invitation for a symposium at Nord University, Bodø, December 9-10th 2021. More details will follow as we learn how many will participate.NOTE concerning extensions:  since this clashes with DiGRA2022 deadline: I am not going to formally extend the date, but if you send me an email letting me know you want to submit, but need

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 I have gone north. This update comes to you from just north of the polar circle, Nord University in Bodø. If you need to google that, you are not alone. Until a few years ago, Nord University Bodø was Bodø University College, along the same lines and Volda University College, where I worked for 19 years. It is a small, messy place which has grown in different direction based on interest,

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Since it is March 8th 2021, the first thing I want to do is congratulate all the girls and women out there. Congratulations. We have made it through another year. I am not going to say the last year has been all about progress: this year has cast a harsh light on inequality, gender, race, and class. The pandemic has underlined how easily small differences and cultural expectations can have huge

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If you are reading this, you have survived until past summer solstice of 2020. That in itself is a feat. The year is not over though, and we still have things to do, virus to beat and oppressive systems to tackle. Because who knew that when sending people home from work to save as many as possible, taking away their livelihood and not offering them proper health care would lead to dissatisfaction

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Not much to say today except what the title says. We call it social distancing, but that is wrong. We are, and should be, physically distancing ourselves from others. Socially, however, we should be close. And that is definitely possible these days. Ask anybody in a long-distance relationship, with a disability, with 100 friends in the raid-guild, with an active Tik-tok presence, even with a

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Recently an interesting article by Amanda Phillips combining PUA rhetoric with game studies history has made some waves in social media, so I decided to have a look at it. Particularly as it was speaking about something I was part of: Gamestudies.org, in year one. The article is addressing the affective tone of the development of game studies, and as such that is a pretty subjective thing, and

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One of the games I have played most frequently recently is Kingdom. I am currently on Kingdom 2 Crowns, which is the third version of it, and I haven't explored all the features yes, but I am still having fun trying to figure out the most efficient way to move through the lands. Kingdom is a simple sidescrolling strategy/resource management game, where you are a monarch trying to keep your land

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Once upon a time, I wrote an article for an American collection, and I used class as an example of inequality. The response was that this would not be understandable to an American public, so I was asked to use ethnicity instead. That was however not something I felt confident with, so I used gender, which was accepted. Since then, I have tried to understand why being asked to use ethnicity or,

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"What do you do," somebody asked me, two decades ago in a MUD. "I am a scholar," I answered. That was immediately challenged. Apparently, that was a term that kept being misused. At the time I was an assistant professor, just finishing up my Ph D., and I was doing research right then and there. I explained this, and was grudgingly accepted as being the real thing. I have had a few firsts in the

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In the aftermath of #MeToo, there has been a lot of "oh but now I don't know how to approach women" and "I can't talk to women because what will they think of me?" Suddenly men worry about how to approach women, and feel afraid of being misunderstood when they talk to women. Well, here's the thing, women have been doing that for ever. Here are some examples of things women think when they

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Conferences are difficult for academics. We need them for publications and for networking, but nobody really likes them. The fun part is always the stuff that goes on at the same time, the conversations, the parties, the walks, the runs, the more-or-less planned meals, the trips back and forth - that's what feels like it makes it all worth the trip. We still go, because no matter how much we may

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After almost 9 years using my bike as the main transportation for everything, I am starting to feel confident. Not native, mind you, women my age around here have more than 50 years in the saddle, honing their thigh muscles, but no longer a tourist. And so I would like to offer some advice from somebody who still remembers how confusing this was. Copenhagen has a wonderful network of bicycle

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When we submit applications, we are always told to tell the world why our research is important. How is it relevant? And I am always at loss of words. Not because I think what I do is irrelevant, but because I think it is all extremely relevant, and not seeing that is really not a problem I can solve. So, let's take a step back and look at the problem from another angle. First, I need to

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When you try to develop an education that is attentive to the potential job market of students, one of the things you will face are buzzwords. Every employer will have a new buzzword that they would like you to use when educating the students. The current term is "growth hacking." There is nothing wrong with wanting our students to know about growth hacking. If you research the term online, it

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I tend to devour fantasy and science fiction, and I do it for the escape. I read and write constantly, and when I don't, I play, all for work, so when I want to get out of that kind of headspace, I end up mindlessly devouring popular fiction. Aside from Netflix and HBO binging, I have been buying Saga, Monstress and Paper Girls comics, and I definitely recommend either one of those. But today I

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It is our great pleasure to announce the Digital Games Research Association's 2019 Conference call for papers. Papers are invited under the theme 'Game, Play and the Emerging Ludo Mix', where 'media mix' serves as a starting point for considering games' convergence, transformation, replication, and expansion from platform, technology, and context to another. For more information

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