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Aug 01, 2004

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This is brilliant!

Cheers Richard, or shall I say "Proffesor"? ;-))

Good luck, mate.

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Sorry about the spelling, I am far too distracted by DOOM3!! ;_))

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Congratulations, Professor Bartle!

To keep the "new title" posts at a minimum, I'll just piggyback on this to announce I'll be joining the law faculty at Rutgers School of Law. I'll be teaching cyberlaw starting this month as an "assistant professor."

(Maybe the title will get me some inordinate respect at Edinburgh!)

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Congratulations. Next stop – Sir Bartle!
Ren

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To echo the sentiment, congratulations, Professor! Let us know when you're knighted, as Ren foretells. ;)

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Congrats to both of you!

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Or, as the Wizard put it, "I, your Wizard par ardua ad alta, am about to embark upon a hazardous and technically unexplainable journey into the outer stratosphere, to confer, converse, and otherwise hob-nob with my brother wizards..."

CONGRATULATIONS. There are many with the title and not 1/100th of Bartle's merit for it. Such a heartening development. Huzzah!

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Break a leg!

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Michael Chui>Let us know when you're knighted, as Ren foretells.

I don't think there's much danger of that happening...

What pleases me most about this is that it's partial recognition that computer games are worthy of academic research. The job title had to be approved by a senior university committee of other professors, and it was for a department that already has more than its quota of professors.

I'll discover whether anyone else in the university takes computer games seriously when I approach the departments of Computer Science, Psychology, Law and Literature with a view to finding research matches there...

Richard

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greglas>To keep the "new title" posts at a minimum

Now you're being modest... Rutgers isn't exactly a backwater!

>(Maybe the title will get me some inordinate respect at Edinburgh!)

I would expect that that to be the case, yes, although not to the extent that you can expect to get away with mimicking Scottish accents and disparaging the whisky!

Richard

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Richard> Rutgers isn't exactly a backwater!

It's a fantastic law school and I couldn't have wished for a better position. It's absolutely ideal for me and I'm really really really really happy. My reticence to do a new post was due to the fact that I haven't got much to add that summation--no anti-economics rants or titular meditations. :-)

Richard> ...disparaging the whisky!

Perish the thought! And I'm a Silly Wizard and Andy Stewart fan -- I dig the accents...

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Congratulations, Professor Bartle.

Is your field of study limited to massive multiplayer computer games, or will you be looking at computer games in general? Because computer/console games in general are already a major cultural influence, well worth studying. While massive multiplayer games are still a comparatively tiny niche, and I would be surprised if an established university had the vision to see them as major social influence of the future.

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Congratz! Richard and Greg. Sirs, all.

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Congratulations to both of you.

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Tobold>Is your field of study limited to massive multiplayer computer games, or will you be looking at computer games in general?

My research it's mainly virtual worlds, although I'm also interested in computer game design in general, and I do teach other aspects of computer game research.

>Because computer/console games in general are already a major cultural influence, well worth studying.

From that perspective, they should be being studied by sociologists. I'm not a sociologist, but I'm interested (OK, and sometimes appalled!) to hear what sociologists have to say about them. Personally, though, I'm primarily concerned with computer games for their own sakes; it demeans them if they are only ever researched through the eyes of some other discipline. They deserve to be looked at from within, not just from without.

Richard

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It's always great to hear when people level up!

Congratz!

-bruce

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Congrats!

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Congrats to Profs. Bartle and Lastowka! Something tells me it's going to be an interesting and fruitful 2004/2005 in the field of vw studies. I'm fastening my virtual seatbelt.

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When start a next concert of Andy M.Stuart in 2005, England, Scottland or Germany??? I need the Date If jou can send me.Or other informations about him, where can I find it?
Thanks a lot. Almut Tenge

Almut Tenge
Unterlimpurgerstrasse 79
74523 Schwäbisch Hall
Germany

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When start a next concert of Andy M.Stuart in 2005, England, Scottland or Germany??? I need the Date If jou can send me.Or other informations about him, where can I find it?
Thanks a lot. Almut Tenge

Almut Tenge
Unterlimpurgerstrasse 79
74523 Schwäbisch Hall
Germany

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