IT University of Copenhagen sitecore@itu.dk https://video.itu.dk en-us Visualplatform http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss IT University of Copenhagen Stay up to date with all the things that are happening at IT University of Copenhagen. This podcast will serve you various videos and audios with accounts from scientists and actual students at IT University, and give you a glimpse into their... episodic no https://video.itu.dk/files/rv0.0/sitelogo.gif https://video.itu.dk http://video.itu.dk/photo/19567543/espen-aarseth-game-studies-from-the-hobbit-to <p>Espen Aarseth, professor in Game Studies, is the Head of the Center of Computer Games Research at IT University of Copenhagen and the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Game Studies. We talk to Espen about founding computer games research as an academic discipline, the Games study programme at ITU, what a game is (entertainment? sports? waste of time? cultural artefact? social activity? storytelling? shared illusion?), PewDiePie, how the established narratological concepts of literary theory succeed or fail in describing games, playing The Hobbit over a landline phone in the 1980s, and Dungeons &amp; Dragons.<div><br></div><div>Recorded on 12 October 2017.</div></p><p><a href="http://video.itu.dk/photo/19567543/espen-aarseth-game-studies-from-the-hobbit-to"><img src="http://video.itu.dk/19476793/19567543/447ed78341b781c5618649009f8bfadd/standard/download-2-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://video.itu.dk/photo/19567543 Fri, 13 Oct 2017 14:37:22 GMT Espen Aarseth: Game Studies from The Hobbit to Minecraft Espen Aarseth, professor in Game Studies, is the Head of the Center of Computer Games Research at IT University of Copenhagen and the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Game Studies. We talk to Espen about founding computer games research as an academic discipline, the Games study programme at ITU, what a game is (entertainment? sports? waste of time? cultural artefact? social activity? storytelling? shared illusion?), PewDiePie, how the established narratological concepts of literary theory succeed or fail in describing games, playing The Hobbit over a landline phone in the 1980s, and Dungeons Dragons.Recorded on 12 October 2017. Espen Aarseth, professor in Game Studies, is the Head of the Center of Computer Games Research at IT University of Copenhagen and the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Game Studies. We talk to Espen about founding computer games research as... IT University of Copenhagen 01:06:30 7 <p>Espen Aarseth, professor in Game Studies, is the Head of the Center of Computer Games Research at IT University of Copenhagen and the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Game Studies. We talk to Espen about founding computer games research as an academic discipline, the Games study programme at ITU, what a game is (entertainment? sports? waste of time? cultural artefact? social activity? storytelling? shared illusion?), PewDiePie, how the established narratological concepts of literary theory succeed or fail in describing games, playing The Hobbit over a landline phone in the 1980s, and Dungeons &amp; Dragons.<div><br></div><div>Recorded on 12 October 2017.</div></p><p><a href="http://video.itu.dk/photo/19567543/espen-aarseth-game-studies-from-the-hobbit-to"><img src="http://video.itu.dk/19476793/19567543/447ed78341b781c5618649009f8bfadd/standard/download-2-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> Computer Games Research Dungeons & Dragons Game Studies The Hobbit cast it