EA's bombshell deal to go private could be good for investors, but bad for employees. Leveraged buyouts almost always lead to immediate mass layoffs, and more than half of EA's current cash flow will likely go toward servicing the debt. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026 📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷 📅 July 27-31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement" Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025 Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ #DH2026 #ADHO #KADH

Campus changemakers, including our own Jeremy Leipert, celebrated with inaugural Indigenous engagement awards! #brocku brocku.ca/brock-news/2...

Feminist Digital Humanities (open access) www.bibliopen.org/9780252048302

Check out @aaronmauro.bsky.social's lecture, "AI, Security, and the Future of Education," delivered as part of Brock's Homecoming events! #brocku #AI #cybersecurity #edtech www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUlw...

Check out this article in the Brock Press on “Exploring the origins of an ethical, feminist research project and how I got the chance to become involved”: brockpress.com/mapping-mamm... Featuring our very own @aaronmauro.bsky.social! #brocku

Join us on September 19th at noon for @aaronmauro.bsky.social's webinar on AI, Security, and the Future of Education: brocku.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx... #brocku

Game on at the Canadian National Exhibition brocku.ca/brock-news/2... #brocku

Emerging Voices in Black Games @thegamesinstitute.bsky.social from last year. We had a moment to discuss this great panel featuring @theblackblackmage.bsky.social, Cyan DeVeux, and Steven Dashiell. #brocku www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4YX...

Brock champions ethical educational technology use: brocku.ca/brock-news/2...

In "Indigenomicon," @arsavium.bsky.social examines the differences between settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies by bringing video game studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/RM90jF8

Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

universityaffairs.ca/news/reflect... #brocku

Check out the amazing new collection edited by our very own @emmavphd.bsky.social! Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be is free to access here: punctumbooks.com/titles/histo... #brocku

What happens to human employees when AI reshapes the workplace? brocku.ca/brock-news/2... #brocku

Award-winning grad student levels up accessibility in game design brocku.ca/brock-news/2... #brocku

Our Queer Analog Game Studies Special Issue is now LIVE. Kaelan Doyle-Myerscough on PbtA as queer platform, Brandon Blackburn on solo journaling games, Susan Haarman on queer domesticity in Yazeba's, and PB Berge & Percy Hornak on lyric games and trans life. Check it out! analoggamestudies.org

Hey! Check out this new podcast interview about monsters and the new book "Monstrosity in Games and Play" edited by me, @merilainen.bsky.social, @jjol33n.bsky.social, and Lobna Hassan published with @amsterdamupress.bsky.social! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/monstrosity-...

Really excited to share this policy guide on research security in Canada, written by @aaronmauro.bsky.social!! It's a topic that I didn't know I needed to know more about (& I got to edit it!). Available on the Open Scholarship Policy Observatory in ENGLISH and FRENCH...Links in thread below

Taking a moment to celebrate my PhD student, Alison Innes, for winning a Coalition Publica scholarship on "Podcasting and Scholarly Communities": www.coalition-publi.ca/news-nouvell... #brocku

Please to announce that we are hiring an Operations Coordinator in the Department of Digital Humanities. This is a full time, continuing position: brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...

Our own @aaronmauro.bsky.social will be offering a webinar on AI research and program development for homecoming: brocku.ca/brock-news/2...

if you cancel your NYT games subscription there’s great alternatives for newspaper games like @puzzmo.com … www.puzzmo.com

Check out the great work of our Interactive Arts and Science majors: "Enhancing Historic Interiors with Mixed Reality" at the Brown Homestead thebrownhomestead.ca/journal/hist... #brocku

The new issue of @romchip.bsky.social is out, and includes new work by me on the history of video game screenshots and the way we photographed our game screens to capture images of ourselves: romchip.org/index.php/ro... The rest of the issue is fantastic, check it out!

UOttawa Faculty of Arts launches “Human Intelligence” for the AI era academica.ca/top-ten/uott...

Check out Prof. David Hutchison talking about the need for funding for teachers in Ontario: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #brocku

Check out my new research security policy guide at the Open Scholarly Policy Observatory: ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/the-state-of... #cybersecurity #rdm #research #security

Brock game student games featured on @gamingbible.bsky.social! www.gamingbible.com/news/platfor... #brocku @brocku.ca

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