He holds a Ph.D. in Humanistic Informatics from the University of Bergen, Norway, 2004, and MA and BA degrees from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. His research interests span three main general areas of academic inquiry: Ludology and Game Studies, Digital and Visual Rhetorics and Electracy and Digital Creativity. His latest book, Inter/vention: Free Play in the Age of Electracy was published by the MIT Press in 2012.