Dear list-members, Please see below for a PhD opportunity in Utrecht on rhetoric in game design. Kind regards, Koen Leurs | Aio / PhD student OGC (Research Institute for Culture and History)| Utrecht University, the Netherlands | Janskerkhof 13, 3512 BL Utrecht | # 2.02 | (+31) 30 253 78 59 | (+31) 6 13108803 | Current project: http://www.uu.nl/wiredup/ Please consider the environment before printing this email. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Raessens, dr. J. (Joost) Verzonden: vr 19-6-2009 16:36 Aan: MCW (Groep) Onderwerp: PhD position Persuasive rhetoric in game design (GATE) Dear Colleagues, please spread around to possible interested candidates the announcement for a PhD position within the GATE research project Design rules for learning through simulated worlds. PhD project: Persuasive rhetoric in game design This project investigates how the medium-specificity of computer games make them suitable for persuasive purposes and to what extent and in what ways persuasive rhetorical strategies can be designed to convince serious-game players of the veracity of a certain point of view - as in games for change - or the necessity of a behavioral change - as in health games. Although a project description <http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/ogc/vacatures/2009/GATEWP42DEFJR-2009-06.pdf> exists, candidates are also given the opportunity to develop a PhD proposal of their own. This project should fit into the research project Design rules for learning through simulated worlds. For more information check: http://www2.let.uu.nl/Solis/ogc/vacatures/2009/phd_researcher_GATE2.htm. GATE website: http://gate.gameresearch.nl <http://gate.gameresearch.nl/> . Project description: http://gate.gameresearch.nl/index.php?pageID=53. Candidates have to apply before 9 August 2009. Thanks, Joost Raessens Prof. dr. Joost Raessens | Professor of Media Theory | Department of Media and Culture Studies | Faculty of Humanities | Utrecht University | Muntstraat 2A | Room 1.06 | NL-3512 EV Utrecht | T +31 30 253 6270 / +31 611 340 241 | F +31 30 253 6167 | J.Raessens@uu.nl <mailto:J.Raessens@uu.nl> | www.raessens.nl <http://www.raessens.nl/> |