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It's SYLLABUS season! Are you teaching a course this year related to the creator economy, platforms & digital culture? Upgrade your reading list with a little help from our RESOURCES! 📜✍️🧑‍🏫 Shout out if helpful! We can't wait to watch this page grow 😈 ccsn.framer.website/Resources

For those looking for a good end-of-summer read, might I recommend Lisa Messeri's In the Land of the Unreal? I just published a review of it in International Journal of Communication and think it's an amazing ethnography of commercial VR in the late 2010s! Read here! ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

Watch this space! Twitch is dynamic & lively place to interact w/ followers & voters, but only if Harris campaign faithfully engages w/ the norms of the platform. They won't be successful if they just set up a webcam and rebroadcast what is already on cable news

This week on CAVRN, we have Maxwell Foxman's review of Lisa Messeri’s “In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles,” an ethnographic exploration of VR through its enthusiasts and innovators in LA. Check it out here: cavrn.org/book-review-li…

As a reminder, we are searching for a new colleague here at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication UO Journalism & Comm! Assistant Professor of Media Law and Technology careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/5339… University of Oregon SOJC Media Studies

It's National #VideoGame Day! Wonder what #sociologists have to say about games? ➡️Christine Tomlinson, PhD 🎮📖 "Gaming on Romance"(journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.11…) ➡️Karen Sternheimer "Do Video Games Kill?" (journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.15…) ➡️Page & MacMillan "A Game You Can't Win" (journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.15…)

Thanks, Brandon C Harris, PhD 🍉 for this great summary of EGR Lab's (egrlab.uoregon.edu) latest pub, which can be found here: doi.org/10.3389/fspor.… Kudos to co-authors & lab members Amanda Cote Waseq Rahman Onder Can & Jared Hansen 🇵🇸 Check it out if you're interested in esports fandom!

Seems like a wonderful addition to the growing work on platforms, content creators and journalism.

I'm happy to more officially announce that I received a Fulbright Canada Scholarship for my research on disinformation games. I'm feeling deeply grateful for this opportunity and if you want to follow along or talk about it I'll be documenting the journey scottbdejong.ca/post/what-is-u…

The 2025 BIPOC Game Studies conf. calls for game submissions on gaming culture/technology/experiences of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color to showcase at Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY (USA). Deadline: Jan. 15, 2025. More info: conference.blackgamestudies.com/index.html

New citation of our #esports research: "Esports buffs: the perceived role of fans and fandoms in U.S. collegiate programs" #CollegiateEsports #EsportsFandom #EsportsFans #FreeLabor #FanLabor #esportsEDU 👏Amanda Cote Maxwell Foxman Brandon C Harris, PhD 🍉 Full text: frontiersin.org/journals/sport…

It’s here! The beautiful (and hefty) Routledge Books Handbook of Esports has arrived following a lot of work from our editorial team Seth Jenny Nico Besombes Tom Brock & Tobias M. Scholz, chapter authors & reviewers. The result is a comprehensive resource covering esports’ many facets.

Pretty excited about this article which takes a great look at intimacy in VR and makes great use of autoethnography to do so: doi.org/10.1177/135485…

Returning from perpetual Twitter hiatus to spread the word: Cornell Information Science is hiring! Tenure-track hires at all levels in Ithaca, focusing on qual/interpretive methods, CSS/quant approaches, study/design of human/AI interactions. Review starts 11/10: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28405