🚨 Five fully-funded PhD lines 🚨 open in Media, Technology & Democracy at @au-mtd.bsky.social. Full tuition, stipend, benefits. Work w/ @adriennemassanari.bsky.social, @benjaminstokes.net, @chbutkowski.bsky.social, @paufder.bsky.social, @rohangrover.bsky.social, me, and many more. #academia #commsky

I ADORE alt.ctrl.GDC. Always a highlight of my show. Get those applications in!

listening to @benjaminstokes.net talk about Locally Made Civic Games

The Washington National Cathedral is slowly building a scale Lego model. One of my students discovered that they have a 500k-block 3d digital model of the cathedral to guide the build & naturally asked: 1) can I have the file?, and 2) do you want a game in it? And they said yes to both! 1/2

If you’re in DC this weekend, come out and play District Hunt! Incredible puzzle hunt from the folks at Game Genius. www.gamegenius.org/districthunt

NYC recently had a "hey what's up with the new payphones" mystery that is now solved! -mja gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

I can't believe New York City finally gave rise to an actual Game For Change moneyontheleft.org/2025/08/25/z...

🎮🔥 Call for Games! 🔥🎮 I'm curating a show on GAMES AS PROTEST/ACTIVISM and looking for titles that explore resistance, civil disobedience, or political action. Made one? Know one? DM or comment! Lets make some interactive uproar ✊️ More to come soon!

Gaming Democracy is described as "the book about Gamergate we have been waiting for" in this @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social roundup of new scholarship about the alt-right. I am thrilled to be in such good company with some scholars who I very much admire.

Super proud of all my @au-mtd.bsky.social people in Denver for #ICA25 #ICA2025. Lots of great scholarship and the karaoke ain't bad either.

Today at the #NoKings protest, some great fan activism and pop culture. In Denver adjoining #ICA2025

We are PROUD to live in the gayest city in the world. 🥰 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Goodbye to the coinventor of BASIC, who died earlier this month at the age of 96. My first real dive into programming was thanks in part to the design values of this man: Dr. Thomas Kurtz of Dartmouth, and his colleague John Kemeny. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...