Keri Duncan Valentine and Lucas John Jensen recently released a new book entitled Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives. I was fortunate enough to have a chapter accepted for the book… and that no one complained when I subtitled it “Dilemmas and Dragons.” A lot of my …
Mia Consalvo and I recently published this co-authored “manifesto” piece in the new journal Social Media + Society, edited by Zizi Papacharissi. Abstract: In this manifesto, we argue that social media research needs to take the broader field of game studies in the exploration and understanding of social media. Many of the results, theories, and concepts developed …
This summer, MindShift has rolled out its Guide to Games and Learning, a multi-part series by Jordan Shapiro looking at the increasingly important role games and gaming have on learning, from literacy to math. In Part 1, “Tapping Into the Potential of Games and Uninhibited Play for Learning,” Shapiro writes, “All games facilitate some kind …
The Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) now annual meeting (it was previously a biennial event) was held in Snowbird, Utah this week, hosted by the University of Utah. I was present for two events, the first: “The Playful is Political: A Fishbowl Conversation on Identity and Diversity in Game Culture,” an event organized by Shira …
Freshly published in the journal Surveillance and Society is an essay I wrote exploring my observations on the broader rise and discussion surrounding gamification. In the essay I reflect on the rhetoric surrounding the rise and the broader systems at play during the period, which had a significant impact on how game developers reacted to …