Shenja, My dissertation topic is community and social capital in online games, and I'm in the communication department at Michigan, so yes, there are media people doing related work. I think there are a handful of researchers doing non-effects work on games, primarily other Ph.D. and Masters students, but a few notable faculty as well. Most of this work seems to be done in England and Northern Europe. There are some good web resources out there I can suggest. Probably the best listserver to join is the Digiplay listserve run via Topica.com by two good researchers in England who have been very active in organizing the research community. It also has some interested industry types on it. joystick101.org is a good site for researchers and students. The professional industry lists that are useful are located at gamasutra.com and the igda.org. I taught a class on game technology, policy and social issues earlier this year (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dcwillia/Comm479.html), and I maintained a page of some useful links at http://www- personal.umich.edu/~dcwillia/Gamepages.html Hope that helps, Dmitri On Sunday, October 27, 2002, at 07:50 AM, Shenja Vandergraaf wrote:
Dear all,
Recently I've started working on my Ph.D. on P2P technology and online games. I've been wondering who is studying P2P as well, not only in the field of computer science but for example media studies, etc.? Are there any organisations 'out there' that I can join? Another question: I've heard about a P2P-congress in Australia (sometime this year), does anyone know about that or know where I can find some info about the topics?
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