Torill Mortensen is an assistant professor at Volda College. She is writing a weblog about Multiple User Dungeons (MUDs), media studies and reader-response theory, role-play games and online communication, called "thinking with my fingers". And she just submitted a Ph. D. thesis on Computer Games in the beginning of March 2003, to the Faculty of the Arts, University of Bergen. The title is Pleasures of the Player: Flow and Control in Online Games.

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Lisbeth Klastrup is Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC) at the IT University of Copenhagen. She just reached in her Ph.D. thesis: Towards a poetics of virtual worlds: multi-user textuality and the emergence of story. Abstract will be online soon. And she's writing a research diary with a lot of interesting information on persistent online worlds, games and interactive stories (selfdescription).

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