Podcast: On game studies and assorted topics

I was recently a guest on the really great Culture Digitally podcast. If you don’t know this site and project, it’s a fantastic initiative spearheaded by Hector Postigo and Tarleton Gillespie, two of my fav scholars out there. The site, and podcast, have been a interesting venue for conversations and explorations into cultural production and…

PBS Offbook on e-sports

I’ve really enjoyed PBS’ great Offbook online video series for awhile now. They have covered some fantastic topics with a nice balance of great content and terrific visuals. I’ve long wanted to learn how to make these kinds of thematic short-form videos so I find the series pretty inspirational. They just released an episode on…

Update & New Book!

The fact that the last update here was in June should, perhaps, tip you off to what the last several months have been like for me. I never intended this space to be a daily or even weekly blog-y thing, but five months lag says something. As many of you know my summer was spent…

@BerkmanCenter talk

Earlier this month I gave a talk at the Berkman Center @ Harvard on some prelim findings regarding this new project on live-streaming I kicked off a few months ago. The data collection is still very much in progress but figured I might as well link the video as it gives some sense of initial…

Heading to MIT

I’m thrilled to announce I’ve accepted a position at MIT as associate professor in Comparative Media Studies, starting in the fall. I’m very happy as well that they’ve agreed to also let me continue my previously planned visiting researcher gig at Microsoft Research New England with the Social Media group for the fall term. To…