Rune Klevjer
Post-doctoral research fellow
Department of Information Science and Media Studies
University of Bergen
rune.klevjer@infomedia.uib.no

• Doctoral dissertation (2007): What is the Avatar? Fiction and Embodiment in Avatar-Based Singleplayer Computer Games (pdf)
  
  
• Aesthetics of Play Online Proceedings. Computer game conference in Bergen 14-15 October 2005.
  
  
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• “Dataspillanalyse: reisen og kartet” [Norwegian]. Publiseres i Peter Larsen og Liv Hausken (red): Medievitenskap bind 2, 2. utgave. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget (2008).
  
  
• “Dataspill i skolen?” [Norwegian]. Publiseres i [tilt], Landslaget for Medieundervisning (2008).
  
  
• Playing for Columbine. Empathetic gaming in Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (Introduction, pdf)
  To be published in Cultural Politics, 2008. Full pre-edit draft available on request.
  
  
• The Cultural Value of Games (excerpt). In Ludes, Peter (ed.) Convergence and
  Fragmentation. Media Technology and the Information Society. Bristol: Intellect Books (2008).
  
  
• “Review: Diane Carr, David Buckingham, Andrew Burn and Gareth Scott, Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2006”. European Journal of Cultural Studies 2008, volum 11, nr 2, s. 221-223.
  
  
• Genre Blindness
  Hard Core column no.11, Digital Games Resarch Association, 28 December 2005.
  
  
• The Way of the Gun: The aesthetic of the single-player First Person Shooter
  English version from: Klevjer, Rune (2006) “La via della pistola. L’estetica dei first person shooter in single player” In Matteo Bittanti & Sue Morris (Eds.) Doom. Giocare in prima persona, Costa & Nolan, Milano.
  
  
• Dancing with the Modern Grotesque: War, work, play and ritual in the run-and-gun First Person Shooter.
  English version from: Klevjer, Rune (2006) “Danzando con il Grottesco Moderno. Guerra, lavoro, gioco e rituale nei First Person Shooter run-and-gun” in Matteo Bittanti (ed.) "Gli strumenti del videogiocare. Logiche, estetiche e (v)ideologie", Costa & Nolan, Milano, pp. 223-249.
  
  
• "Gladiator, worker, operative: The hero of the first person shooter adventure" in Copier, Marinka og Raessens, Joost (eds.): Level Up. Digital Games Research conference 2003. Utrecht: Utrecht University; CD-ROM (2003).
  
  
• In Defence of Cutscenes. In Mäyrä, Frans (ed.), Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference Proceedings, Tampere: Tampere University Press (2002).
  Published in Italian as: “Per Una Difesa delle cut scenes”. In Matteo Bittanti (ed): Schermi Interattivi. Il cinema nei videogiochi. Roma: Meltemi (2008).
  
  
• Computer Games Aesthetics and Media Studies. Paper presented at the 15th Nordic Conference on Media and Communication Research. Reykjavik, Iceland, 11-13 August 2001
  
  
• Det gamle evangelium [Norwegian]. In Rhetorica Scandinavica nr. 18.
  
  
• Sofies Exodus (pdf) [Norwegian]. Genre analysis of Jostein Gaarder's Sofie's World - MA Thesis in Norwegian.
  
  

LAST UPDATED:
5. June 2008

Rune Klevjer
Dept. of Information Science and Media Studies
University of Bergen
P.O. Box 7800
5020 Bergen
Norway

Tel : +47 55 58 41 23
Mobile: +47 90 630 360