PhD Dissertation online

It has been for a while, but I completely forgot to mention it on my blog: my PhD dissertation is available for download at the University of Amsterdam's Digital Academic Repository. Called Games of Stake: Control, Agency and Ownership in World of Warcraft, the research deals with the ongoing negotiations between players, and between players and the game's developer Blizzard, which shape and, I argue, define the socio-cultural phenomenen of World of Warcraft.

THIS is the link.