MIT Press, the publisher of both my EverQuest and e-sports book, has just launched a new service – BITS – where you can get a single chapter, electronic and DRM free, of many of their titles for $2.99-$4.99. My chapter on computer games as sport has been selected for the program (@ $2.99!) and if…
I love podcasts and so admire the folks who do the Social Clarity one – Randy Farmer, Scott Moore, and Marc Smith. They are all pioneers in understanding virtual worlds and communities online. Needless to say, I was really excited when they invited me on to talk about live-streaming and e-sports. You can listen to…
I’m really proud of my co-authored book Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method written with the fab Tom Boellstorff, Bonnie Nardi, and Celia Pearce. I learned so much from them, and the process, and it’s been great to see the book go out into the world and get some nice feedback (CSCW, American…
The start of the term is just around the corner so I thought I’d go ahead and post an update about where I’ll be speaking this fall, in case you happen to be in the neighborhood. – Keynoting at FROG (Future and Reality of Gaming) conference in Vienna, Sept 27-29. – Invited plenary speaker at…
The website, In Media Res, has a special theme on e-sports this week for which I’m a contributor. The site has an interesting format: a curator picks a short (less than 3 min) video to use as a prompt and then writes a brief response. Yesterday, Neal Hinnant, who is curating the entire week, picked…