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…
I was really excited when Ren Reynold’s of the Virtual Policy Network invited me for a chat about my new e-sports book for his podcast, Social Change Technology. Ren’s an old friend and very knowledgeable about gaming (not to mention virtual worlds and all sorts of net-related stuff) so getting a chance to talk to…
The MIT Press, publisher of my new book, has a podcast and they interviewed me on the subject of e-sports. The episode just dropped and you can listen online. I sound a bit like a sniffly robot but hopefully still some tidbits of interest there for those wanting a little intro about pro play.
Sometimes people ask me if there is a particular clip of a player or video from e-sports that really illustrates the scene. This is actually something I became more interested in during the course of my own fieldwork as I found myself taking more and more pictures at tournaments – words sometimes feel like they…
As I mentioned in my last post, perhaps the one clear absence at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference panel on e-sports was Justin Kan and the Twitch.TV site. If you are interested in gaming, especially pro e-sports, and you don’t know about Twitch yet, it is worth checking out. It’s a spin-off venue launched in…