I was incredibly honored to be asked to give some remarks at this year’s MIT FLI Welcome Dinner. FLI is the term used at MIT for first-gen (first in family to attend college) and/or low-income students. Recognizing and supporting first gen and low income students is something that has grown over the last few decades…
I was incredibly fortunate to get to participate in the Knight Foundation’s symposium Lessons from the First Internet Ages back in November 2021. As a part of that I contributed a short piece for publication online entitled “Games Matter.” One of the things I’ve tried to do in my teaching and prior research (particularly around…
The following is from a short talk I presented for the Entertainment Design Symposium at Shanghai Tech in October 2020. It was part of a panel focused on game education and I was asked to address the issue of esports in academic programs. I’m a professor in the department of Comparative Media Studies at MIT…
There’s been some discussion recently about game studies as a field. What defines it. What discussions dominate it. The usual wranglings over intellectual histories within scholarly (and I suppose other) domains. It’s something I’ve certainly thought about before. Back in 2009 I wrote a piece trying to disrupt some of the framing around the field.…
In August 2019 I gave a keynote at DiGRA (a game studies conference) on the subject of esports and networked broadcasting. At the end, I offered the following remarks on collegiate esports. One quick additional note, after the talk I was struck by how many faculty came up to me to say they are being…