For the academics in the house: The Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University has a vacancy for an Assistant Professor New Media and Digital Culture (1,0 fte). I would love to apply for this job but I am not done with my PhD until Q3 of next year. So you should take it!

On a different note, September 8 I did a workshop on Social Politics. There is another one October 20. Here is a great write-up about the last workshop over at Frankwatching: Social politics: hoe nieuwe media Obama naar de overwinning hebben geleid.

There’s a write-up of my September 7 talk on Social Politics as well: Drs. David Nieborg spreekt in de serie Plug in over Obama’s campagne en de invloed van social media.

My talk on New Media & Politics – “Obama’s campagne. Tussen hoop en hype” – for Studium Generale Universiteit Utrecht (SGUU) was a big success! The room (or lecture hall) was packed with about 100 people attending and 140 people tuned into the live stream. As I said, I was very honored to open such a promising lineup. The questions from the audience were very good and provided me with a lot of food for thought.

But even better, you can watch the entire talk online (with slides!), including the Q&A session, here. You have to have Silverlight installed (with is a OS independent plug-in). If you look on Twitter (using the #sguu tag) you can see some commentary there as well.

Something completely different; I wrote a short bit on America’s Army for the STT newsletter. Download the article’s pdf here. STT (De Stichting Toekomstbeeld der Techniek) is a non-profit think tank where Jacco van Uden is working on a white paper on serious gaming, hence my article on America’s Army. If you have not met him and you are working in the field of serious gaming you might want to contact him, he is working on some great stuff!

Tomorrow at 11.30 (am) Tanja Sihvonen and I will do our presentation on game journalism at DiGRA09 (Digital Games Research Association). Paper is titled: “The New Gatekeepers? On the occopational ideology of game journalists”. You can download the paper here. If you’re at DiGRA, do come by! If you have any questions about the paper, you know where to find me.