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…
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…
Last weekend we were fortunate to host some visitors from Tencent China for an extended two days of gaming and conversation. You can read the full write-up over at our GameLab blog. One of the things I did during the weekend was offer some opening remarks at a panel on the positive values of esports.…
Whew. I feel like the last half of spring was quite a sprint! Only now coming up for air enough to post a little update. Several terrific events happened post GDC that I’ll mention: AnyKey went to PAX East again where we got to spend a great weekend in the diversity lounge hanging out with…
I just got back from a pretty full week in SF for GDC. The trip kicked off with a visit to Twitch (see prior post) and then two talks at the conference itself. I spoke on Tuesday about the history of communities in building the esports scene and then gave a microtalk in the advocacy…