Category Archives: Sociology

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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Splatoon 2 Players Fight Hate with LGBT Pride

Posted on August 23, 2017 by

There’s been an interesting development going on in the Splatoon 2 community. Players can interact with their fellow peers via shared in-game pictures and messages. For anyone familiar with Mii-verse, these messages are more or less mii-verse posts in game … Continue reading →

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