video games + interactive media

screenshot from World of Warcraft cutscene wherein dozens of goblins have affixed ropes to a giant statue in front of the Gallagio, Jastor Gallywix's pleasure fortress

Protesting Azeroth: Notes from a conference paper

This post is a companion piece for a paper I presented on player protest in World of Warcraft.

screenshot from a call of duty screen, showing the perspective of the player calling in a Mass Guided Bombs killstreak. a static tv grain has been overlaid on top

video games + interactive media

Everyone's a Hero in a Fascist Reading of Popular Media: Iran Strikes, Call of Duty, and Dudecore Soundbites

The White House has been gloating through montage videos after striking Iran. This post disentangles some of the meaning-making involved in the properties they are posting.

video games + interactive media

Retrobaiting Azeroth: Notes from a conference paper

This blog post is a companion piece for a paper I presented at a conference in February (which I am working to publish in a journal in the coming year). Nostalgia is a contested space, including in and around World of Warcraft, a video game that has been running for