Dr Kyle McPhail
they/them
Postdoctoral Fellow in Museum Studies and Art History at Mount Allison University
Trans and Disability Representation in Art and Visual Culture, mainly focusing on disability aesthetics in video games and digital art
I'm bad at social media
@steepinkline.bsky.social
Writer, actor, (over)thinker, graduate student at the University at Buffalo,and enthusiasm enthusiast.
@ccarey.bsky.social
Associate Professor, USM. Media History, Game Studies, C19 Literature, AI and DH.
@thelibgamer.bsky.social
Past President of ALA’s GameRT. Librarian with diverse experience in public and academic libraries. I am now working for the Indiana State Library and living in Southern IN.
@qgcon.bsky.social
Official account for the Queerness and Games Conference (QGCon). QGCon 2025 is happening September 26-28! https://www.qgcon.org/ Sign up for our mailing list: https://buttondown.com/QGCon
@kathrynfedchun.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Communication at Carleton University. RoCCET Lab Fellow. Interested in queer game studies, comic studies, cosplay harassment at conventions, & affective media 💅🏻 https://kathrynfedchun.itch.io/ Raccoon image from artist Lily Seika Jones 🎨
@saraventure.bsky.social
I was your friendly, neighbourhood rhetoric and game studies diva. Now I’m not sure what’s going on. I'm into critical pedagogy, rhetorical genre studies, open ed, and trusting my students.
@roseschmits.bsky.social
Trans kiln witch™ Ceramics artist based in London www.roseschmits.com she/her 🏳️⚧️
@leonxiaoy.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ CityUHK | Loot Boxes; Video Game Law 🎮🎰 | Empirical Legal & Policy Research | Pro Screenshotter 📱📸 | leonxiao.com
@xenosns.bsky.social
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Citizen archivist of Nova Scotia video game development history. Sometimes hobby game dev. - He/Him https://linktr.ee/XenosNS https://xenosns.itch.io
@kojiyoshimura.bsky.social
Lecturer, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR). My teaching and research examines the psychology of media entertainment with a focus on ambiguous narratives, meaningful experiences, and interactivity.
@markshines.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Kentucky Fulbright Taiwan Race and representation in fantasy games, toxic fan studies, popular culture markhines.me
@ellaguro.bsky.social
she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
@bardolator.bsky.social
English prof in the prairies | Shakespeare | Austen | Food | Cults and Coercive control | Pedagogy | Unions | Anti-Fascist | Anti-Genocide
@michaeliantorno.com
PhD researcher studying videogame history, industry labour, and IP law. 🎮Dissertation on SNES/SFC preservation, emulation, repros, and hacking. 🦣TTRPGs at Mammoth Island Games. 🕹️Game industry research with Game Arts International Network.
@yifatshaik.bsky.social
There is true freedom in being an adult because you are allowed to be as boring as you want too ~yifatshaik.com~
@velixious.bsky.social
professor of game studies and design, sociologist, retired MMORPG shaman, current cozy game player, mom of two kickass adult daughters, lover of holidays, gin, and cats.
@jessromarcotte.bsky.social
game designer, narrative designer, researcher, maker, writer. 1/3 of Soft Chaos Cooperative. 🌈35. Queer, trans, Mi'kmaw and Eurosettler mix. Organizer of QGCon and other queer COVID-cautious events. they/them https://softchaos.games https://jeka.games
@noizangel.bsky.social
aspiring Doctor of D&D, but not how you think @ YorkU • coined 'D&D industrial complex' • STS/Communications • recovering larp burnout • i love pizza and cats noizangel: literally everywhere https://linktr.ee/nicolewinchester she/her/any/all 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
@andreizanescu.bsky.social
PT Faculty in Communication Studies + Socio/Anthro Postdoc @Concordia Blockbuster Resonance & Prestige in AAA Games, Film & Awards Shows Also Magic: The Gathering + Cultural Resonance Streaming by the Rest of Us (2025, MIT Press) www.andreizanescu.com
@stevewilcox.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Critical Game Design @ WLU | Prosocial Game Designer | I research how to mobilize knowledge through play https://www.helloworlds.ca/projects
@gerald-voorhees.bsky.social
(he/him) Critical/cultural games studies. Associate Professor of Communication Arts at U Waterloo. Disabled, biracial Chinese-American rhetorician in Canada.
@alexcustodio.com
PhD candidate studying videogame history at Concordia University. My dissertation focuses on the Game Boy’s afterlives, including hacks, mods, and emulation. Pixel artist and cross-stitcher. They/them.
@hanine.bsky.social
here we go again! anthropologist • award-winning game & narrative designer • writer || 8123 - Ł communication PhD student at Concordia game making program coordinator @pixellesmtl.bsky.social arabic localisation at Side https://linktr.ee/hanineelmir
@rainforestsb.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow ✒️ @ Tampere University 🇫🇮 Comms Officer 🎤 @cgsaacej.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Currently researching games and exhaustion.
@scottdejong.bsky.social
Making and studying games about disinformation. Fulbright scholar. PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar. scottbdejong.ca
@makopowered.bsky.social
Video Game Scholar, Pixel Artist, YouTube Video Maker, Sometime Game Designer, Self-Professed Pop Culture Junkie. Der Uberdork with a Communication Studies PhD.
@barnfeline.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6 #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FreePalestine #LandBack
@mattjwells.bsky.social
• Post-PhD, itinerant instructor, digital games, history of computing • Self-diagnosed game developer, working on Frenzy, a Far Cry demake from an ecofeminist perspective • Fan of '90s video games, '80s hip hop, and '70s computer science
@simondor.com
Prof in game and media studies @ UQAT Montréal, author of StarCraft: Legacy of the Real-Time Strategy (UMichigan Press, 2024), ed. @ Kinephanos & collection ed. @ PUQ. Power & control in strategy & management games. Leftist. FR/EN. He/him. Il/lui.
@marclaj.bsky.social
Coordinator of the Technoculture, Art, and Games Research Centre. Game researcher, university instructor, podcast producer, musician, and author. Mostly a person though! krafftmine.bandcamp.com/album/we-who... connectingtogame.ca
@srirachanikorn.bsky.social
📟 Sociologist: nostalgia, video games, and social pain. Co-founder of @nostagain.bsky.social 🚀 Learn more about me at https://richysrirachanikorn.wixsite.com/home 🏡 Based at the Technoculture, Art, and Games (TAG) Research Centre
@profjay.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Game Studies. GPD MA in Game Studies. Brock University, dept. of Digital Humanities.
@videogamehistorian.bsky.social
Videogame historian extraordinaire FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation CGSA Francophone Rep Creator of Deadplay podcast
@thechristinet.bsky.social
✨CEO of peer-reviewed vibes (they/she) ✨Asst Prof (LTA) of Digital Media & Game Studies, U of Toronto Mississauga ✨Researcher of work, play, livestreaming & creator economy ✨PhD(c) U of Toronto iSchool ✨ https://thechristinet.wordpress.com/
@persephone.blue
🔥 ludoarsonist 🕹️ media scholar 🎮 game maker AP of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. Dir. @ https://darcmode.org + https://triptable.top. 🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨ 🌐 https://persephone.blue 🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io
@steinea.bsky.social
Producer at EA SPORTS Game Development Instructor at TWU Tabletop game designer Occasional poet steinea.ca
@masc4magikarp.bsky.social
A level 5 Magikarp aspiring to be a Game Studies Scholar, interested in Interactivity, Game-Player Relations, and LGBTQ+ Storytelling
@burnedprof.bsky.social
🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. academia has 4 parts: research, teaching, service & politics. i got the 1st 3 right. posts mine & might be info. my passport says i am 183cm tall. when you're burned, you've got nothing. no pets, no insta & you're not going anywhere. ça que c'tait.
@vogontheater.bsky.social
Wordsman, gameswright. MDes @ Concordia. || Making a game about the Bronze Age Collapse and also a game about 15th Century Venice || Youtube: Vogon Theater || Writing @ Blood Knife and itch.io || He/him
@profmatthew.bsky.social
Media Studies, Film Studies, Game Studies Professor. I study nerd stuff. Co Editor The Bloomsbury Handbook on Sex and Sexuality in Game Studies
@cloobot.bsky.social
Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
@davidkocik.bsky.social
Ph.D. in Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies from UW-Milwaukee | Researching video games, sexuality, and transnational media circuits though a cultural studies lens | Percussionist and cat dad
@courtneyblamey.bsky.social
professional overthinker PhD Candidate @ Concordia University | GAMERella Co-Director critical design; values/meaning; emotional game design she/her courtneyblamey.com
@andrewrbailey.bsky.social
SSHRC postdoc researching/creating videogame archives at the Technoculture, Art and Games Research Lab at Concordia University. Teaching games studies and new media art history at OCAD University. He/him. 📚 https://arbailey2297.github.io
@justinrobs.bsky.social
MA Media Studies graduate and Queer Game Studies scholar. Sometimes I stream 👾 Known to be a messy everything.