Assistant Professor @ University of Washington, Information School. PhD in English from WashU in St. Louis.
I’m interested in books, data, social media, & digital humanities.
They call me "Eyre Jordan" on the bball court. 🏀
https://melaniewalsh.org/
Senior Instructional Professor of CS @UChicago, amateur sciuriologist. Views are my own.
He/him 🏳️🌈 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Other places you can find me: https://linktr.ee/borjasotomayor
I made GameHistory.org and you can too
Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
Lecturer at RMIT researching feminine gaming | she/her
Author: Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames
Curator Feminine Play: feminineplay.org
PhD @ UW studying meaningful game experiences | prev. SWE @ Twitch. MIT '21, game credit on God of War: Ragnarok | https://ndevasia.github.io
LSE prof @MediaLSE | Director of #DigitalFutures4Children | Researches children's digital experiences and rights | Interested in evidence to inform policy | s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk | Stay in touch at http://eepurl.com/cEUi05
Assistant Professor @University of Washington | PI of the interACTlab | teens and tech in Latin America | she/ella
We're on a mission to make it easier to grow up in the digital world. Learn more at youngfutures.org.
Youth and technology researcher. Senior Fellow, Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. Affiliate, Data & Society. Parent and step-parent to 4, six if you count the cats.
Journal of Media Psychology is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering media psychology. Edited by @bowmanspartan.bsky.social (S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications)
https://www.hogrefe.com/eu/journal/journal-of-media-psychology
Scientist, runner, Canadian still trying to figure out how to live in the US.
Psychology Prof and Associate Dean at UCI, who sometimes writes about why we should trust science and avoid panic to really help our kids.
Developmental psychologist translating the science of how kids learn for parents, educators, & policymakers. Loves tennis and vegan ice cream. Find me at Brookings Institution and Temple University.
Professor and Chair at @uw-hcde.bsky.social; Human-Computer Interaction researcher studying tech for health, education, & families; Academic mama. Views are my own.
Journal of Children and Media is an academic publication for scholars and professionals who study the role of media in children's and adolescents' lives.
Now in its 20th year, the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP) is a research centre based in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University.
https://www.cemp.ac.uk
SXSW EDU Conference & Festival | March 9-12, 2026
ACM IDC is the premier international conference for researchers, educators and practitioners to share the latest research findings, innovative methodologies and new technologies in the areas of inclusive child-centered design, learning and interaction.
Supporting children growing up in a digital world. Find out more at digitalchild.org.au
Advancing Positive Futures for Kids in the Digital World
writer in chicago / co-host of @eati.games / fiction in @thecoloredlens.bsky.social / @play.date enjoyer / more at https://linktr.ee/stellarine / views expressed here are my own and not that of my employers
PhD Student at UW iSchool researching cultural analytics.
https://neelgupta2112.github.io/
meiragilb.github.io
PhD student studying privacy, surveillance, HCI
University of Washington Information School
she/her
Official account for the Queerness and Games Conference #QGCon established in 2013. QGCon is a registered nonprofit based in Montreal, Canada.
Stay tuned for news on presenting at or attending the next QGCon!
https://www.qgcon.org/
Non-profit dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and teaching the history of video games. Our free digital archive is now open to the public! http://archive.gamehistory.org
The DEFINITIVE site for video game literature 📚 🇨🇦
👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org
Over 10,000 Video Game Books catalogued❗️
New books added daily.
• Join the Discussion: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n
• Support: https://thevideogamelibrary.substack
A crowd of coders, lawyers, librarians, designers, & tinkerers building tools like Perma.cc & Caselaw Access Project at the Harvard Law School Library. Where
@institutionaldatainitiative.org got started.
🌐 https://lil.law.harvard.edu
The International Congress of Infant Studies is a not-for-profit organization devoted to the promotion of research on the development of infants
https://infantstudies.org/
Developmental cognitive neuroscience, vision, perception, attention, learning, EEG/ERP/ssVEP, eye tracking, infants. Professor and PI of UF🐊 BCD Lab: https://bcdlab.psych.ufl.edu
My opinions ≠UF/FL.
Developmental psych & cog neuro, studying how babies and kids make sense of and learn from their social world. Asst Prof @ UCSD. she/her
Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com
Executive Director of childrenhelpingscience.com, Psych-DS maintainer, strong feelings about data management & collaborative science. My last name is "Kline Struhl" (she/her)
Psych prof at Univ. of Toronto, studying the dev't of social and moral cognition, learning, and behavio(u)r.
tecl.ca
school psychology phd candidate at illinois state || gamer, nerd & friend of bears || she/her 💖💜💙
Post-doc at the University of Waterloo. Game history and labour scholar.
🎮Dissertation on SNES/SFC preservation, emulation, repros, and hacking.
🦣TTRPGs at Mammoth Island Games.
🕹️Game industry research on unions, worker co-ops, incubators, and more.
artist and game designer www.solarserver.games
www.karastonesite.com
There is true freedom in being an adult because you are allowed to be as boring as you want too
~yifatshaik.com~
professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
game & narrative designer, maker, writer. 1/3 of Soft Chaos Cooperative. 🌈35. Queer, trans, Mi'kmaw & Eurosettler mix. Organizer of @qgcon.bsky.social & other queer COVID-cautious events.
they/them
https://softchaos.games
https://faenotype.design
aspiring Doctor of D&D @ YorkU (on leave) • coined 'D&D industrial complex' • STS/Coms • recovering larp burnout • i love pizza & cats
videos & cards: https://www.youtube.com/@noizangel
https://linktr.ee/nicolewinchester
she/her/any/all 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
Hi my name is Mia and I love potato chips far too much.
Postdoc Fellow in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro @Concordia
Blockbuster Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows
Also Magic: The Gathering + Cultural Resonance
Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press)
www.andreizanescu.com
Philosophy and Digital Humanities at the U of Alberta
Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
Assistant Teaching Professor in Game Development & Interactive Media at Ontario Tech University, writer of tawdry queer romance games. Personal account: opinions do not represent my employers.
she/her ✨ Assistant Prof in Political Studies - Women's and Gender Studies at USask✨ Interdisciplinary legal⚖️/pornography🌽/games🎮 studies scholar working on sex in video games ✨ Current work: The Pornography, Platforms and Play Project www.pppproject.com
(he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
PhD candidate studying videogame history at Concordia University. My dissertation focuses on the Game Boy’s afterlives, including hacks, mods, and emulation. Pixel artist and cross-stitcher. They/them.
here we go again!
anthropologist • award-winning game & narrative designer • writer || 8123 - Ł
communication PhD student at Concordia
game making program coordinator @pixellesmtl.bsky.social
arabic localisation at WB Games
https://linktr.ee/hanineelmir
Critical Games + Tech Researcher 🖥️✒️
@ Intersectional Tech Lab (U. Michigan)
Comms Officer 🎤
@cgsaacej.bsky.social
Writing a book on games and exhaustion that's under contract with Duke University Press!
Find me at https://www.rainforestsb.me/
Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Video Game Scholar, Pixel Artist, YouTube Video Maker, Sometime Game Designer, Self-Professed Pop Culture Junkie. Der Uberdork with a Communication Studies PhD.
🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6
Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux.
Publisher of Loading... Journal.
gamestudies.ca
• Play Frenzy Mission 0 demo: https://semioticblocks.itch.io/frenzy-mission-0
• Post-PhD, self-diagnosed game developer, working on Frenzy, a Far Cry demake from an ecofeminist perspective
• Fan of '90s video games, '80s hip hop, and '70s computer science
Prof in game and media studies @ UQAT Montréal, author of StarCraft: Legacy of the Real-Time Strategy (UMichigan Press, 2024), ed. @ Kinephanos & collection ed. @ PUQ. Power & control in strategy & management games. Leftist. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
Coordinator of the Technoculture, Art, and Games Research Centre. Game researcher, university instructor, podcast producer, musician, and author. Mostly a person though!
krafftmine.bandcamp.com/album/we-who...
connectingtogame.ca
📟 Sociologist studying people who are nostalgic for a past that has never happened, and a future that will never arrive.
🌟 Co-founded @nostagain.bsky.social
🚀 https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home
Associate Professor of Game Studies. Brock University, dept. of Digital Humanities.
Nancy Drew nerd, pop culture prof, bookaholic.
Videogame historian extraordinaire
FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation
CGSA Francophone Rep
Creator of Deadplay podcast
✨Retired tech model writ(h)es about the Internet (they/she)
✨TT Asst Prof @ Alberta University of the Arts
✨Researcher of digital work, play, livestreaming & the creator economy
✨PhD U of Toronto iSchool
✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com
🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
𝐇𝐎𝐖'𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 is here!!! 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io/next-week
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TTRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue
Producer at EA SPORTS
Games researcher
Former game development instructor
Tabletop game designer
Occasional poet
steinea.ca / steinea.fyi
A level 5 Magikarp aspiring to be a Game Studies Scholar, interested in Interactivity, Game-Player Relations, and LGBTQ+ Storytelling
🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info.
my passport says i am 183cm tall.
when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere.
ça que c'tait.
Wordsman, gameswright. || Designer of Shadow Doge || Youtube: Vogon Theater || subrosagames.itch.io || He/er/il
Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff.
Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
🏳️🌈 Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
professional overthinker
PhD Candidate @ Concordia University | GAMERella Co-Director
critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design
she/her courtneyblamey.com
SSHRC postdoc researching/creating videogame archives at the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Lab at Concordia University. Teaching games studies and new media art history at OCAD University. He/him.
📚 https://arbailey2297.github.io
MA Media Studies graduate and Queer Game Studies scholar.
Sometimes I stream 👾
Known to be a messy everything.
Assistant Professor of Design, Informal and Creative Education, UW-Madison. Game and play scholar, potter and dog friend.
Postdoc @ Western U FIMS + Starling Centre | PhD Screen Cultures @ Northwestern | popular culture, gender, labour, and digital histories | Sometimes filmmaker 📹💾
Assoc Prof, English, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU); Director, TMU Centre for Digital Humanities, https://www.torontomu.ca/centre-digital-humanities/. Research interests include connections between literary studies and video games, eLit, queer DH
Settler on treaty 6, PhD candidate in feminist game studies @ ualberta, itinerant social worker, parent, usually in over my head on a wild DH scheme.
She/her
Game maker. Writer. Associate Professor of Computation Arts at Concordia University in Montréal. Ways of Playing.
https://pippinbarr.com
https://waysofplaying.games
Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
Assistant Professor @ Simon Fraser University. She/her. Pinay Feminist Game Scholar Jedi
PhD Candidate @UofT, graduate research fellow @ Centre for Culture and Technology; studying us military and militarism, milsim videogames, and the history of computation. she/her 🏳️⚧️
Canadian researcher and lecturer in media and game history or spaces.
I tend to write about representations, histories, identities, politics, video games and role-playing games.
There will be typos.
Associate Professor, teaching stream
university of Toronto Mississauga
Digital media & game studies
Phd haver and UWaterloo English instructor. Interested in games, digital media, comic books, and gamebooks. He/him
he/him | Game design prof🏅 | Game Designer 🕹️ | Author: A Gamer's Introduction to C# (out now), A Gamer's Introduction to MonoGame (coming soon)
linktr.ee/aaronlangille
Researching {science of AI-mediated science, metascience #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment, governance, misinformation in science}
PhD @ UW.
Visiting @ NYU & MSR
Alum @ Carnegie Mellon
Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.io
Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Aalborg University
(prev Bristol, ITU Copenhagen, Aalto)
Human autonomy & agency. Humanistic Quant. Complexity methods. Behavioural Science.
Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Assoc Prof Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern. Infovis, HCI. Author of tidybayes & ggdist R pkgs. he/him. 🏳️🌈 https://mjskay.com/
Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu
Co-founder https://journalovi.org
Associate professor of social computing at UW CSE, leading @socialfutureslab.bsky.social
social.cs.washington.edu
AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
https://mkremins.github.io
Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
PhD Candidate @ CMU HCII | Critical Computing + STS + Queer Art | he/they | https://jtaylor.lgbt | On the Job Market
Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him
Professor of HCII and LTI at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science.
jeffreybigham.com
Professor of Ethics and Games Technology, University of Staffordshire UK - she/her
Vice chair ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Co-EIC ACM Games
Content lead #EMFCamp
Ethics of games & emerging tech; AI & crypto critic
https://liedra.net 🩷💜💙
Info sci prof @ Drexel, trying to keep the machines (esp. RecSys & IR) from learning bigotry and discrimination. ADHDS9. Usually self-propelled. Opinions those of the Vulcan Science Academy. 🐰x2.
🏡 https://md.ekstrandom.net
🧪 https://inertial.science
