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2017-10-14
SSHRC Awarded IG 2018: Essences have traditionally been assigned important but controversial explanatory roles in philosophical, scientific and social theorizing. For example, why is it possible for one and the same organism to be first a caterpillar and then a butterfly? Why is it impossible for...
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The Null Game: feature-specific player enjoyment in massively multiplayer online role playing games
DownloadSpring 2010
Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) are complex and interesting objects of study. They are quite popular among both casual and connoisseur gamers, and they are often played continuously over many years. Despite a reasonable amount of existing research on MMORPGs, no clear...
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09/17/2021
SSHRC IG awarded 2022: Richard Whitford was the most important English monastic author of the late Middle Ages as he distinguished himself by writing and translating a series of devotional texts aimed at both women religious and a lay public. The project will illustrate the importance of eight of...
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2019-10-01
SSHRC IG awarded 2020: the goal of this project is to uncover the work and decisions involved in collecting, organizing, and changing the data used by algorithms, using business ethnographic methodology. This understanding is ultimately critical to revealing how algorithms work, and to revealing...
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2018-01-02
SSHRC IDG awarded 2018: This proposed grant aims to develop a systematic understanding of how the sustainability logic and its associated practices (e.g., sustainability offices, recycling, becoming more energy efficient and clean, buying local food etc.) have spread across North American...
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What can Foucault tell us about Fun in Sport? A Foucauldian Critical Examination of the Discursive Production and Deployment of Fun within Varsity Coaching Contexts
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Fun is a concept of growing importance in sport and in sport coaching research (e.g., Bigelow et al. 2001; Mastrich, 2002; Small, 2002; Smoll et al., 1988; Thompson, 1997; 2003). Fun, and especially fun in sport, is generally understood not only as being unproblematic but also as being inherently...