I’m happy to say that Chapter 1 of Raising the Stakes, my book about e-sports, is now available for free via the MIT Press website. It covers some key history around e-sports, as well as a glimpse into the South Korean scene. If you’ve not yet had a chance to pick up the book, definitely…
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…
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…
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…
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…