Welcome to gamespace.nl! This website is supposed to keep you up-to-date about my writing, research, journalism, consultancy and other stuff. A short biography below outlines what I do and when I did it, with whom, and why.

Biography

David B. Nieborg graduated cum laude at Utrecht University on the interaction between popular culture and the U.S. Army, using the PC First Person Shooter game America’s Army as a case study. His MA-thesis “Changing the Rules of Engagement – Tapping into the Popular Culture of America’s Army, the Official U.S. Army Computer Game” was awarded a finalist position at the ‘2005 Dutch National Thesis Trophy’.

Nieborg published on his work on games, the military entertainment complex and online participatory culture in peer reviewed journals such New Media and Society, the European Journal of Cultural Studies, Fibreculture Journal, and het Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, as well as in various book chapters and conference proceedings – both national and international.

Current research
Today, David is affiliated as a PhD-student with the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), a research institute dedicated to the interdisciplinary study and analysis of contemporary culture. His PhD discusses the political economy of the game industry. His supervisor is professor dr. José van Dijck (UvA), aided by co-supervisors dr. Jan Simons (UvA) and prof.dr. William Uricchio (UU/MIT). In the fall of 2008 David was a visiting scholar at MIT’s GAMBIT game lab.

Teaching
Starting in 2002 as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University, he became a lecturer at Utrecht University teaching in such areas as media theory, film studies, communication studies, and new media and digital culture. Since August 2005, David is a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Humanities, department of Media and Culture studies. In Amsterdam he coordinates courses, supervises BA and MA theses, and teaches seminars and lectures on new media and digital culture, participatory culture, new media tools, and game studies.

Interviewed
David is a regular interviewee for numerous newspapers (Het Financieele Dagblad, Algemeen Dagblad, Parool, Volkskrant, NRC, nrc.next, DAG, Spits, GPD Dagbladen), magazines (Nieuwe Revu, Management Team, Intermediair, VPRO Gids, Adforesult, Observant, HCC Link, Spotlight Effect, Folia, Ublad, Brunel Magazine), TV shows and documentaries (EenVandaag, VPRO Tegenlicht, Al-Jazeera English) and radio shows (Radio 1, BNN United, L1, BNR Nieuwsradio, Lijn 5).

Projects
As a journalist Nieborg writes for various Dutch magazines and national papers, mostly on new media and games. David started his newspaper adventure at the leading national newspaper NRC. Today he writes feature articles on games for the daily Dutch newspaper Dagblad de Pers and he is a regular contributor to GMR, a leading Dutch game magazine, and Bashers.nl, a groupblog on games by Dutch game journalists.

From 2005-2006 he wrote a weekly game column for Folia, the University of Amsterdam magazine and Planet Multimedia. His online work on games started at Ownage.nl a Dutch game community with columns on game culture. From 2006-2007 David wrote an online game column at FoliaNostra.nl, the now closed Folia website. In addition David writes for various other online magazines such as De Nieuwe Reporter.nl, on new media, (online) journalism, virtual worlds and participatory culture.

Consultancy
Late 2006 David founded Innovation Vineyard, or I-vineyard.com, together with friend and colleague Shenja van der Graaf. I-vineyard is a duo perspective on entertainment and technology. Or, a creative platform for new media research, consultancy, writing, and thinking. Together we consult (inter)national firms (in various industries) on the implications of social networks, virtual worlds and games.

Looking for a speaker?
Apart from being a university lecturer, David has background as a speaker at numerous events such as national and international academic conferences, workshops and various new media related events. Looking for a speaker at a for-profit event? David can be booked at The Next Speaker.

Personal
David lives in Amsterdam and is the proud owner of an orange bicycle. His interests (both academic and non-academic) range from (digital) games, (online) journalism, virtual worlds, American & Dutch politics, participatory culture, new media & digital culture, travelling and reading.

Contact

David B. Nieborg.

Office
Turfdraagsterpad 9
NL – 1012 XT Amsterdam
The Netherlands
+31(0)20 525 4944 (tip: email me)

Email
David @ gamespace . nl
Nieborg @ uva . nl

Business
Http://www.i-vineyard.com