About this blog
My PhD is basically over bar a couple of chapters, so I’ve stopped using this blog. I may post my thesis and related news later.
My PhD is about how people communicate in online virtual worlds. My focus is on comparing communication in two different media: text chat and voice-over-IP. I have looked at communication in team shooter games, massively multiplayer games, and Second Life. I began the PhD in 2005 and should wrap it up in 2009.
During the past few years I’ve noticed a few PhD candidates writing blogs about their candidature. A recent article on this phenomenon in AJETS convinced me I should do it too. (Blogging PhD Candidature: Revealing the Pedagogy, by Mary-Helen Ward and Sandra West). I’d love to see the PhD process opened up in this way.