views are my own and don't represent my employer.
assistant prof of technical communication @ Missouri S&T
techcomm, game studies, hardware peripherals, ux/ui, usability, disability
nymgamer podcast co-host | disabled scholar | shitposting on main
PhD in Black British media |film studies| cultural studies |memory studies and postcolonial studies)| Lecturer @uib.cat
📍everywhere and nowhere
https://linktr.ee/mariapiquerasperez
Writer; Lecturer at University of Stuttgart, Germany; PhD American Studies
We make cool tabletop items :D
On YouTube as The Crossover Appeal.
At thecrossoverappeal.com for pop culture recs.
Games writing, criticism. Formerly games studies.
Open for writing and editing opportunities.
Bylines: Exploits, Uppercut, Barely Textual, InMediaRes.
🏳️🌈🇲🇽
Senior Gaming Editor, Ars Technica / The guy who LITERALLY wrote the book on Minesweeper -- https://bossfightbooks.com/products/minesweeper-by-kyle-orland
Signal: kyleorl.31
Writer and editor. bylines at New York Times, Vulture, IGN, Esquire, Scientific American and more. ex-WaPo and CNN
shannonliao.substack.com for bespoke games journalism delivered to your inbox
Prof de philo et doctorant sur les rapports entre jeu vidéo et philosophie morale.
Philosophy teacher, PhD student in philosophy and game studies.
_Prof. for Game Studies & Game Design (HNU)
_Podcast Founder "Game Studies" (NBN)
_Editor "Games" (TITEL kulturmagazin)
_Expert Advisor "Games" (DFJV)
_PhD Stud. Uni Vechta
_Xbox: Inderst1978
_Former Int. Community Strategist (Koch Media)
I'm a voice actor. Represented by CAA. prozdkp@gmail.com
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Part of the ITHAKA nonprofit family.
More about us: https://about.jstor.org/
assoc prof @uw-stout | tech comm, ux, game studies | rules writer for paverson games | he/him
Boardgamer, writer, teacher, girl dad, recovering academic.
Unsettling Catan: lookingglance.com/unsettling-catan/
The Looking Glance: lookingglance.com
she/her. disabled, autistic/adhd & queer. PhD @ university of kent, researching embodied Madness in interactive media through a Mad and crip lens. twitch affiliate & occasional nerd musician. recklessenough.com
aka rebecca milton
punctum books is a queer, scholar-led Open Access press devoted to creative modes of inquiry across a whimsical para-humanities assemblage. Affiliated with UC-Santa Barbara Library & funded by university libraries across the globe. https://punctumbooks.com
Game Critic - NPR Contributor
Debug Mag Columnist
Member of the New York Videogame Critics Circle - DiGRA
Words: Unwinnable, Gamers with Glasses, PopMatters, Game Informer, Ars Technica & other places
aguaspoints.com
PhD candidate. Academic interests in rhetorical education & critical university studies. Also here for games, pro wrestling, podcasts, and pet photos. (he/him)
English Prof, Indiana University of Pennsylvania • Writing 'Playful Literature: Stories, Games, Theories' • Founder, The Digital Storytelling Project • Co-author, 'Systemic Dramaturgy' (Southern Illinois UP) • Unionized Faculty (IUP-APSCUF) • he/him
Lecturer in #GameStudies at University of Plymouth
Principal Investigator for www.vagaboundsresearch.org
PhD on Hauntological Videogame Form (2023)
Researcher focusing on nostalgia, hauntology, & videogame form
www.relativenostalgia.com
www.jsweeting.me
Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Written on: baseball in colonial Taiwan; American missionaries in interwar China. Interested in national identity, science fiction, video games. Associate Editor at www.historyrespawned.com
Media and Comms Lecturer at Unimelb 🏫 | ECR researching videogames, narrative complexity and pedagogy 🎮 | Deputy Director of MAGPIE 🐦⬛| DiGRAA Board Member 🌏 | Checkpoint Writer ✍️ | She/Her
https://linktr.ee/cbarkman
Games/Game Design/Game Studies, Nutrition, Psychology, Aging, The Warren, Larpbus, Nanoworld, 200WRPGC, he/him.
perpetually distracted | post-graduate student @ University of Duisburg-Essen interested in social interaction, sociolinguistics & interactive fiction | pfp by @makowwka | queer 🏳️🌈 | he/they
PhD student at Yale University. Studying Japanese video games in the EALL department. イェール大学博士課程、デジタルゲーム研究。🏳️🌈 lillianmcintyre.com
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.
rhetorician studying terrible things, but probably not the ones you're thinking of. designer. writer. etc.
Video game archaeologist + game dev//
Postdoc @itu.dk on theorycraft + archaeogaming //
Prev: Story Tech @gutefabrik.bsky.social, Planning Archaeologist at Museum of London Archaeology
they/them
💾 florencesmithnicholls.com
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.
Producer at EA SPORTS
Games researcher
Former game development instructor
Tabletop game designer
Occasional poet
steinea.ca / steinea.fyi
Scott Benson. Artist/ Animator/ Writer/ Videogame Person. Light Night Work Club/ Night In The Woods. Same handle on Twitter and Instagram. You can always find me at Bombsfall.com.
3 feral possums in a trench coat.
Pansexual genderqueer with decision paralysis and a penchant for storytelling and hijinks.
PhD in nerd things and storytelling.
They/them
A curated/researched collection of information of LGBTQ content in digital games from 1980s-present. Our profile icon was designed by Adrienne Shaw (2024)adapting an icon created by zidney from the Noun Project. https://lgbtqgamearchive.wordpress.com/
Studying Twitch and Games @ Concordia, Media Studies MA 🍁
she/her 🌿
student; illustrator; twitch moderator; video essay enthusiast 🌺
background in media studies, art history, and asian studies 🌸
MA Student in Communication and Culture, York University
Researching character creation and player engagement in digital games
Blog: www.thethirdmedium.com
Senior Research Fellow @CoEGameCult | Docent in Media Studies @utu.fi | Secretary of DiGRA | #dnd #gamecultures #gender #misogyny #platforms #playboy #porn #righttoplay #ukgamescene (he/his).
PhD candidate in Communication @ Carleton University 🇨🇦
RoCCET Lab fellow 💥
Queer affect scholar lookin' at the queer indie video games scene(s) on itch.io 👾
https://kathrynfedchun.itch.io/
Raccoon image from Lily Seika Jones 🎨
They/he/she. Ass. Prof LV 2, Georgetown. Gamer Trouble + Queer/Trans/Digital/Diaspora (NYU Press). Transmasc Latinx feminist bunny boi. V srs academic. Subtext for days.
phd student at uic. they/them. queer game studies, crip theory, digital media, decoloniality, intersectionality & interdisciplinarity.
avatar ID: a mirror selfie of a vaguely masc person in a floral shirt
banner ID: hand-holding photos (also paws)
I am your blue-haired Library Scientist and I am working to put Videogames into your Libraries [and vice-versa] || Current: Uni of Washington, Chorby || Former: Gamesline, Delgo 2, putting Games into Middle Schools & Academia (he/him)
Kulturingeniør, informasjonsflanør, jungeltelegrafist, medieøkolog og (digital) humaniora-entusiast. Gift med @sortulv.bsky.social
Researcher and Destroyer in the (digital) humanities. PhD in Library and Information Science.
Academic hedge witch.
Assistant Professor, School of Cinema, San Francisco State University. PhD, Yale University. Co-president of the Society for Animation Studies. 🇧🇬 Research areas: animated media, AI, visual effects, video games. Latest: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/944430
Investigating video games, board games and other types of play in the context of their history, production and socio-cultural value 👾
🌐 http://investigate.games
✉️ investigate.games@yorksj.ac.uk
📍 York St John University, UK
Editor in Chief at @Artforum.bsky.social. Art historian specializing in video and digital art. Disabled. Cybergoth. Mom. And yes: it's "Artforum," not "Art Forum."
Game Studies || Psychology || Digital Play Enthusiast
Master's degree programme Game Studies and Engineering, Writer & Mental Health Advocate. Accessibility matters. "Retro can be fun!"
Curator of tabletop games and puzzles at The Strong National Museum of Play | PhD candidate at UCF.
Collecting and researching board games and escape games! (he/they)
Senior Lecturer in Finnish Literature at Tampere University | PhD, Docent | Director of Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies | Books, Authors, and Avant-Garde in the Digital | Living (mostly) in Helsinki (she/her)
linktr.ee/laurapiippo
Curator, arts administrator, Buffalo, NY.
proper grumpy professor // creative labour scholar // football enthusiast // middle-aged soulboy // tampere män
🎮Assistant Professor, Game Studies, Brock University
📚"Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be" (2025) and "Feminism in Play" (2018).
End the Genocide. Free Palestine 🍉
Professor of English at Mississippi State University. I've published on narrative theory, contemporary US (mostly) literature, and computing. Currently working on infrastructure as a narrative issue. Also sometimes makes pottery.
📚 Assistant Professor in Digital Media and Communication - University of Birmingham, UK
✨ Working on video games | agency | cosiness | nature
🖊️ Author of Videogames and Agency (Routledge 2023) - https://tinyurl.com/3mbr8ytu
🌐 https://cozymedia.net/
Black feminist writer, scholar & educator | Exploring Blackness, cultural performance, & imagination as a tool for liberation | Prof. of Comm. & Global Studies UNC-CH | Director SOHP | Listener, storytelling, memory-worker | Mom, Daughter, Wife
Explore art and get creative at the #BuffaloAKG, contemporary since 1862.
Lecturer in Screen Studies, visual narratives, video games, material culture, memory & nostalgia, currently mainly post-apocalyptic. Part-time print-maker.
Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Old Dominion University | Former journalist/documentarian | Researching China's mobile tech/game industry. #gamestudies #mediaindustries
She/Her. LGBTQ+ Film & Media Historian. Media Studies Assistant Professor. PhD in Visual Studies. Research Areas: Film Studies & Film History; Media Industries; Bisexual, Trans, Gay, & Queer History; Distribution & Exhibition; Archives; Horror Studies.
(they/them)
queer game maker, games are bodies
phd candidate in media studies
https://jackperse.itch.io/poke-stroke-grasp
The Official Bluesky account for SCMS
https://www.cmstudies.org/
Questions? Don't hesitate to get in touch with the SCMS office via the Contact Us page, and we’ll be happy to respond.
Narrative Designer by day (Mass Effect, Dragon Age), Novelist by night (The Palace Job, Feeder). (they/them, views strictly mine, OC do not steal)
PhD student at Michigan State University | poetry, environment, gender
I’m an academic obsessed with TTRPG game design and game facilitation.
Postdoc @RMIT on gender, boys and games 🎮 PhD @Swinburne on games & digital events 👾
Freeplay board🤘silly little guy 🤠 she/her 🌿
Erasmus Rotterdam University - Lecturer -
Communications Ph.D. academic precariat - Media Psychology - Videogames & Sexism
UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Publications and marketing specialist. Recovering journalist. Mostly here to chat about books and journalism.
Assistant Professor @ Simon Fraser University. She/her. Pinay Feminist Game Scholar Jedi
Documentary obsessed, professor of media production, occasional filmmaker, fan of cats and dogs.
Assoc Prof, University at Buffalo - Media Study / VR Studio / Game Studies program
Disabled queer artist |cats, games, yelling | they/them | 33 | bi/pan lesbian| grey/aego/acearo enby|AuDHD|PFP is usually my OC| DA,ME,BG3,LiS,UT&DR,Pkmn,SDV,Genshin,HSR, Ghost,KPDH,Neopets💖Reblog okay. DON’T STEAL.🚫NO AI/NFT. Site: winterhartarts.carrd.co
Director, Center for Humanities & the Arts
Professor, Ethnic Studies
Faculty at CU Boulder
Scholar of Asian American Studies & Critical Race Theory
Corgi Mom & Anti-Racism Educator
Love: Stevie Wonder, YoYoMa, Irises, Soft Serve Ice Cream
Hate: Haters
Artist. Gamer. Horror guru. Makes too much* shipping art. AomoriKat on ao3/tumblr xoxo.
*not enough
https://linktr.ee/ktbura
Director of the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University. Sociology Prof. Works on digital culture, STS, game studies, AI and other fun stuff. Also Minecraft and eco gaming. Also the Fun Palace!
Former PK (preacher’s kid), somewhat rebellious teen, Calvin Econ grad, mom, grandma, LGBTQ+ ally, photographer, and elder in a disaffiliated CRC. God has a sense of humor.
PhD @ USYD — Games, World-building and Capitalism — he/him
Researcher on new media and immersive reality technologies 👩💻🎮 exploring the relationship between gender, inclusion, and new media
Founding member of the Critical Augmented and Virtual Reality research network (cavrn.org)
she/her
The University of Hawaii 🌈 -- interdisciplinary Studies/Island Researcher-- Digital Cultures, Video Games(esports), and Digital/Material Games Infrastructures.
#academicsky #indigenousresearch #gamestudies #STS
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kauweloa
Games scholar, academic editor and coach, book cover illustrator, webmaster, PC builder, and Assistant Teaching Professor at Appalachian State U. Need input on a project? Hire me!
Letters to students: https://markdangerchen.net/letters/
#TTRPG Designer, 🎲 Play & Games Anthropologist 😎 neurodivergent queer 🏳️🌈 they/any
Project Lead @confluencerpg.bsky.social and Social Media Manager for @placeholder-games.com.
Support BLM, MMIWG2S, Free Palestine/Sudan/Ethiopia
Historian, PhD. Coordinator of the Digital Exploration Center at UCF. American & Japanese history, pop culture, tech, digital history. Sorcerer Supreme, EVA pilot, Future Gadget lab mem. "I've studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines."
Associate Professor, University of Northern Colorado. Codirector, Gaming SEL Lab. Play theorist.
NEW from The MIT Press w/ Tracy Fullerton: “The Well-Read Game” a.co/d/6oAphWV
I do the artsy stuff, and like to doodle TTRPG art- so that’s pretty cool 😌(professional artist & photographer) | All around nerd | 29 | They/Them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️| sometimes NSFW art 🔞 | NO A*I or NFTS
Links: linktr.ee/MorningJrProductions
Assoc Prof@AmerU (views mine). New book: Gaming Democracy (MIT Press). Researches digital cultures, platform politics, games, etc. Wrote that one thing about Reddit that one time (okay several things). I will always want to see your pets.
She/her/hers.
Associate Prof. of Media Studies @ UGA
Books:
1. The Unseen Internet (MIT press, 2026)💫
2. Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th century (Strange Attractor w RU Sirius)
https://open.substack.com/pub/unseeninternet
Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies
Wilkes University
Game- and transmediaproducer. PhD. Still trying to be a digital fururist..
PhD in Informatics @ UC Irvine. Lecturer in Game Studies and Sociology. Researching video games, social dynamics, video game history, and other nonsense. I post mostly retrogaming junk.
Professor, birder, photographer, hiker, community organizer, lover of rescue dogs and cats and so much more. All power to the people!
Media nerd, gaymer, teacher, critic, theorist. Associate Professor of Film/Moving Image Studies at Concordia University, Montréal. Author of "Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender" and a bunch of other stuff.
Associate Professor of Spanish and Game Studies & Esports at the University of Delaware
Author of 'Cultural Code: Video Games and Latin America' + Editor of 'Video Games and the Global South'
https://sites.udel.edu/ptpt
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
Author, teacher, anti-authoritarian, media studies prof @ Utrecht Univ. 2026 books: FAST & FURIOUS FRANCHISING and THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. Prepping book on Twin Peaks.
Pre-order: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517921088/fast-and-furious-franchising/
