Category Archives: Sociology

Updates and Cancellations

Posted on April 28, 2020 by

Just wanted to update the blog with two unfortunate cancellations about presentations of research. I was accepted to the Digital Games Research Association’s annual conference in Tampere Finland to present my on-going research. The presentation was tentatively entitled Platforms at … Continue reading →

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Short Post on the Early History of Console Cloning

Posted on February 27, 2020 by

I wanted to share a guest blog post I did for the Strong Museum of Play’s Play Stuff Blog during my summer fellowship there last year. The post entitled, Clones in the Archives: Console and Software Cloning Practices in the … Continue reading →

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New Project: Bootleg Consoles and Regional Gaming Identities

Posted on December 5, 2019 by

I wanted to share an area of research I’m currently engaged with, particularly looking at what are typically referred to as Bootleg Consoles as meaningful social artifacts that make up regional gaming identities. Broadly, the term bootleg console can be … Continue reading →

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AnyKey’s Good Luck Have Fun Pledge

Posted on October 1, 2019 by

  This past week AnyKey, an advocacy group that promotes diversity and inclusion in gaming, relaunched their Good Luck Have Fun Pledge. I had the pleasure of representing the organization at TwitchCon 2019 in San Diego this past weekend. I … Continue reading →

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Summer Travels 2: HEVGA summer school, Sweden.

Posted on September 11, 2019 by

Continuing with an update about my games research related activities this summer, I wanted to share a little bit about my experience at the Higher Education Video Game Alliance  (HEVGA) summer school in Skövde, Sweden. This was a three day … Continue reading →

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Summer Travels Part 1: Strong National Museum of Play, Rochester, New York

Posted on August 24, 2019 by

I’ve been active doing video game related things this summer and thought it was finally time to sit down and share. I’ll be breaking this up into multiple post, so stay tuned for most posts in the near future. This … Continue reading →

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Presentation at The Pacific Sociological Association’s Annual Conference

Posted on March 23, 2019 by

I’ll be presenting my research “No Skin=No Skill: Reproduction of Toxic Masculinity and Capitalist Hierarchy in Free-To-Play Battle Royale Video Games” at the Pacific Sociological Association’s annual conference on March 29th in Oakland, CA. I’m excited to meet with other … Continue reading →

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Participation in the “Gaming Blind” Documentary by Accessible Media Inc.

Posted on June 14, 2018 by

I had the opportunity to participate in Accessible Media Inc.’s documentary Gaming Blind, a documentary that explores blind and partially sighted accessibility in the video game industry. “After losing her sight, Shelby Travers thought video games were a part of her … Continue reading →

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Earnest’s Demographic of Video Gaming

Posted on April 19, 2018 by

Earnest, a technology company that analyzes data pulled from loan applications, surveys, and/or publicly available data sources released their finding on the demographics of video game consumers. In this case, they pulled their data from student loan refinancing applications. Data sets … Continue reading →

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Presentation on Capitalism and Video Games at San Diego State University

Posted on April 7, 2018 by

I’ll be presenting at the “Capitalism: Culture and the Individual” on April 14th at San Diego State University.  The presentation, entitled “Now You’re Playing With Power: Video Games and Capitalism”, will focus on how video games have contributed to a … Continue reading →

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