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How to support video game preservation and history
I just got back from a fine time at MAGfest 2020, where I presented as part of the history track in MAGES for the second year. It’s real fun! I felt really lucky to get to do that for a second year.… Read the rest
2019 Year in Academic Review
In Spring 2019, I got to take my first-ever sabbatical, and it really changed the shape of my year. I published less than I usually do by some measures (no journal articles for once?),… Read the rest
Game Studies Book Club
On sabbatical in the spring, I did something I haven’t managed to do in a while: I read several, recently published academic books. It was delightful! I learned things! The books I read varied from things I’d been meaning to read for a year or two (recently is relative, right?)… Read the rest
A totally unofficial guide to SCMS submissions
I have presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in a variety of capacities, and I’ve served on the committee that reviews conference submissions a couple times. I mention this not to make myself sound official (I’m very decidedly not) but to make clear that my unofficial advice is grounded in some deep familiarity with the organization, the conference, and its processes.… Read the rest
The future is unraveling as I write
A few years ago, I saw a call for a special issue of Ada New Media about feminist hacking. I am a crafter: I crochet; I sew; I mend and meddle.… Read the rest
I’m always angry
I have said before that the longer I work, the more simple and the less theoretical my personal politics become. I sit in meetings often and think, “Could you please just treat me like a person?”… Read the rest
Sadly I am not a brain in a jar
I am spending this week and next at the archive. The Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play at the Strong Museum of Play has a staggering collection of periodicals, papers, and artifacts.… Read the rest
Something has happened
This blog post is an expansion of some thoughts I wrote up for a journalist covering the invocation and position of video games in the horrific shooting in New Zealand. The journalist ultimately didn’t use them.… Read the rest
An Encyclopedia of Women Who Have Died
I have been trying for several days to write an encyclopedia entry about Theresa Duncan, who I did not know and whose legacy is so snarled up with her tragic, spectacular death.… Read the rest
Screen Time Symposium September 9, 2016
Jennifer Miller and I are hosting a symposium here in Chicago this fall as part of our work with our Nayar Prize Finalist project on learning games for young children. Please consider submitting and circulate widely.
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