Today on the blog, Noel Brett explores how the feelings associated to gender binaries shape avatar bodies in the virtual world of VRChat. ow.ly/lYiu50vKzzY

I love working for CASTAC and getting to showcase some of my favorite scholars! This latest piece by Noel Brett is up now! If you're interested in virtual worlds/VR, avatars, or gender/sexuality, check it out :)

Anthropologists love video games 😭 I love these nerds

What's your gender studies thesis? Mine is Queering Bodies: (De)constructing the Gendered Critique.

Does anyone know which episode of Lara Sypniewski @bryansafi talks about the woman named De-BOR-ah? Someone help. #tspod

STAN YOURSELF

Looking forward to presenting my work at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting with our panel: "Evolving Worlds: Digital Historicity, Temporality, and Change". Speakers @CMejeur Josh Rivers 🏳️‍🌈 Evan Conaway Dr. Krista-Lee/GamerAnthro/馬琳. And discussant @tboellst. cdmcd.co/3885pB #AAACASCA.

So who's coming to my #AAA2019 panel on temporality and historicity in virtual worlds and video games? Saturday, 4:15pm, CC East, Room 15, East Meeting Level. It's going to be *deliciously* nerdy.

Come join me and fellow panelists @CMejeur Noel Brett Dr. Krista-Lee/GamerAnthro/馬琳 Evan Conaway as we talk about time and temporality in digital spaces, virtual worlds, and technology corporations today at 4:15PM in EAST Room 15! Guest starring Dr. Who quotes. #AAACASCA #AnthroTwitter

#PokemonSwordandShield #fartzone getting my boxes together

Prompted by a prof, I just wrote up a 2000 word explanation of why my mom's career as a hospice nurse was a huge inspiration for my dissertation on the death and resurrection of virtual worlds. Deeply personal and deeply important.

I wrote a thing about server blades FINALLY! Lmk what you think <3

So I do research on people resurrecting old game servers, and Borderlands 3 just asked me to “destroy servers.” Should I put this screenshot in my dissertation?

In light of the latest #StarWars release, today on the blog, Rebecca Perry revisits the history of computer art at the intersections of science, art, engineering and film ow.ly/D8Zv50xPhLO

Today on the blog, Rebecca Perry explores the early history of virtual place making in the game industry ow.ly/q75z50y0Rd6

I don’t get why this has you all creatively blocked. I’ve managed to spend a lot of this time thinking of exciting new ideas and seeing them through to completion. Sometimes 4-5 per day. Now, granted, they were all meals, but

Just released! Our new report on youth wellbeing and social media use w @candice_odgers Stephen Schueller. Contributions by Jennifer Cabrera Evan Conaway Remy Cross @JMayaHdez youthwellbeing.online/Report-tw #SocialMedia #YouthWellbeing

Is anybody vibing today

Hilda Childa 🍄 Anar Parikh, PhD 🇵🇸 the slides are, uh, already online