Christine H. Tran ❤️‍🩹✨🕹 is one of the most brilliant and talented @twitch researchers I know. Her latest work explores the role of spousal and domestic labor of streaming and pushes our field forward. Congrats to you friend 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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1) Recasting Twitch: Livestreaming, & New Frontiers in Digital Journalism (Digital Journalism)

2) Impact of Celebrity & Influencer Illness Disclosures (@hceditorialteam)

3) Patrons of commerce: asymmetrical reciprocity & moral…

Popping on here to happily announce that, due to the support of the MIT Libraries OA monograph fund & The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social , my first two books are now available as free PDF's ❤️ While they are very much histories at this point, hopefully they will still hold tidbits of interest!

Thanks to Oregon Humanities Center for this extensive interview, mostly focused on David B. Nieborg | @[email protected] and my book — Mainstreaming and Game Journalism — but we also talked more broadly about Game Studies, esports research, etc.

Give it a watch here!
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Last call for the Serious Play, held on August 12th-14th in Toronto, Canada.

Deadline for proposals: April 15th.

More info 👇 seriousplayconf.com

Very excited to read this! Collegiate Esports + STS definitely piques my interest!

ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! What is the journalistic potential of Twitch? Maxwell Foxman, Brandon C Harris, PhD 🍉 and will partin 🐌 find that creating news on Twitch challenges traditional boundaries and brings audiences into a live streaming experience.
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Today is the day! RecastingTwitch: Livestreaming, Platforms, and New Frontiers in Digital Journalism is now live at Digital Journalism. Maxwell Foxman, will partin 🐌, & I have been wrestling w/ these ideas since 2019! I'm elated to finally share
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Playing a video game on “easy mode” is not a cop-out. It indulges a specific fantasy in adult life: the ability to summon a little more ease at will, Omar L. Gallaga writes. theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…

Keep your eyes peeled!!

Dipping a toe back onto Twitter to say hey #scms24 folks, come to our book signing for Real Life in Real Time: Live Streaming Culture at the The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social booth Saturday 1:00 to 2:00. Come get silly doodles from Dr. Johanna Brewer Arun Jacob Robyn Hope (Currie) myself & more!

NEW #JMCQReview 🚨Jerome Winter's 'BioWare's Mass Effect' reflects on the pivotal space opera genre that offers players a sense of moral agency over their gaming experience. Read the JMCQ review by Joseph Jerome:
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Another piece of our SI in Digital Journalism (with Gregory P. Perreault, Maxwell Foxman & Phoebe Maares ) is out.

📍Nice work by Jannie Møller Hartley and nanna thylstrup (nannathylstrup.bsky.social):
How do data scientists building AI systems for distributing news?

👉Read more here: doi.org/10.1080/216708…

Was glad to play a part with Dave Markowitz in Waseq Rahman’s long awaited study into how brain-training games are perceived by users. In short their cognitive benefits are not as clear as their game-like elements. Give it a read!

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