Rune Klevjer
Lecturer
Department of Information Science and Media Studies
University of Bergen
E-mail: rune.klevjer@infomedia.uib.no

Doctoral dissertation: What is the Avatar? Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Games (pdf) The public defence took place 9 February, with 1. opponent Espen Aarseth and 2. opponent William Uricchio.

Doctoral lecture presented 8 February: "Aesthetics and Ideology in Computer Games: An Analysis of Super Columbine Massacre RPG!" (manuscript pdf)

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Aesthetics of Play Online Proceedings. Computer game conference in Bergen 14-15 October 2005.

Also check out the Bristol-based game research blog Power Up, where I contribute more or less regularly.

Writings:

• Doctoral dissertation: What is the Avatar? Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Games (pdf)
  
  
• Genre Blindness
  Hard Core column no.11, Digital Games Resarch Association, 28 December 2005
  
• The Way of the Gun: The aesthetic of the single-player First Person Shooter
  English version from: Klevjer, Rune (2006) “La via della pistola. L’estetica dei first person shooter in single player” In Matteo Bittanti & Sue Morris (Eds.) Doom. Giocare in prima persona, Costa & Nolan, Milano.
  
• Dancing with the Modern Grotesque: War, work, play and ritual in the run-and-gun First Person Shooter.
  English version from: Klevjer, Rune (2006) “Danzando con il Grottesco Moderno. Guerra, lavoro, gioco e rituale nei First Person Shooter run-and-gun” in Matteo Bittanti (ed.) "Gli strumenti del videogiocare. Logiche, estetiche e (v)ideologie", Costa & Nolan, Milano, pp. 223-249.
  
• "Gladiator, worker, operative: The hero of the first person shooter adventure" in Copier, Marinka og Raessens, Joost (eds.): Level Up. Digital Games Research conference 2003. Utrecht: Utrecht University; CD-ROM.
  
• The Cultural Value of Games (excerpt). In Ludes, Peter (ed.) Convergence and
  Fragmentation or Unity in Diversity. Bristol: Intellect Books (forthcoming).
  
• In Defence of Cutscenes. In Mäyrä, Frans (ed.), Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference Proceedings, Tampere: Tampere University Press.
  
• Computer Games Aesthetics and Media Studies. Paper presented at the 15th Nordic Conference on Media and Communication Research. Reykjavik, Iceland, 11-13 August 2001
  
• Det gamle evangelium. In Rhetorica Scandinavica nr. 18 (Norwegian)
  
• Sofies Exodus (pdf), Genre analysis of Jostein Gaarder's Sofie's World - MA Thesis in Norwegian.
  
  

LAST UPDATED: 14 February 2007

Rune Klevjer
Dept. of Information Science and Media Studies
University of Bergen
P.O. Box 7800
5020 Bergen
Norway

Tel : +47 55 58 41 23
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