Nick Taylor
Media professor at York U in Toronto. Happy to be here.
Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed.
https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
@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
@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.
@rainforestsb.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Fellow ✒️ @ Tampere University 🇫🇮 Comms Officer 🎤 @cgsaacej.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Currently researching games and exhaustion.
@cloobot.bsky.social
Experimental gamemaker, captured media superfan, wanderer in forests. OCAD University/kokoromi (she/them)
@playwuchang.bsky.social
Welcome to the WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers community. Soulslike Action-RPG launching in 2025. ESRB Rating: M | Tag us: #WuchangGame | Chat live: http://Discord.gg/wuchang
@dukepress.bsky.social
Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
@guildwars2.com
Guild Wars 2 is an online RPG with fast-paced combat, immersive stories, stunning landscapes, 2 PvP modes & more! Play free at http://account.arena.net/welcome
@personofcon.bsky.social
Phd haver and UWaterloo English instructor. Interested in games, digital media, comic books, and gamebooks. He/him
@nicolecohen.bsky.social
I research labour and media. Associate Professor, ICCIT, University of Toronto. Books: New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists and Writers’ Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age
@nicolettelittle.bsky.social
•GBV & multimedia activism •Social media memories & harm •Tech-facilitated violence Adjunct Assistant Professor Media & Tech Studies AND MA of Communications Technology @ U Alberta Coffee, dogs, fall leaves…and rest
@grohmannrafael.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) University of Toronto, Canada. Leader DigiLabour. Platform labor, Worker-owned Platforms, AI & Labor, Worker Organizing
@internetmaggie.com
Porn & Platform Research 💦📚☕💻 PhD Candidate @UofT Faculty of Information | Advisory Board w. ECP/Pornhub | #1 Animorphs Fan www.internetmaggie.com
@blairaf.com
Researcher, educator, creative @ UToronto Transfeminist AI ethics, policy, governance: blairaf.com Gay trans cyborg warriors vs. AI monsters: objecttype3.app
@lukestark.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 just a simple country AI ethicist | Assistant Professor, Western University 🇨🇦 | he/his/him | | no all-male panels |#BLM | 🏳️⚧️ ally | views my own https://starkcontrast.co/ https://starlingcentre.ca/
@msteinbrg.bsky.social
Platforms (digital & not), animation, convenience stores in Japan and Asia. Super apps! Prof at Concordia University. Director of The Platform Lab. Books: In/Convenience (http://bit.ly/3Vcs4m4); The Platform Economy; Anime's Media Mix.
@danjokaz00ie.bsky.social
senior lecturer of digital sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University MMU UCU committee I'm a political economist of the internet www.danieljamesjoseph.net
@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.
@mcewan.bsky.social
Communicologist @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmississauga.bsky.social ICCIT/Sociology. Data Sciences Institue. McMC Lab. Studies Social Media, Virtual Reality. Author of Interpersonal Encounters https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/interpersonal-encounters/book23785
@smgrimes.bsky.social
Wolfe Chair in Scientific + Technological Literacy & Professor at McGill University. I research kids + tech + play/games/creativity, advocate for children’s rights in policy/design. Author of Digital Playgrounds (2021) and Kidfluenced (underway).
@sarahstang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Game Studies at Brock University. Lab Director of STAR Lab. At-Large Rep for CGSA and former Secretary for ICA Game Studies Division.
@ellenforget.bsky.social
Academic studying braille, print disabilities, and small-press publishing. Editor by trade, academic at heart. she/they. ocd & long-covid & cane user.
@envmedialab.bsky.social
Based at Queen’s University (2024); University of Calgary (2019-2023). Director: melhogan.bsky.social environmentalmedialab.com heliotropejournal.net
@karppi.bsky.social
Associate Professor, UofT Author of Disconnect. Facebook’s Affective Bonds.
@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.
@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 🇨🇦🇫🇮🌈
@smithsarah.bsky.social
CRC in Art, Culture & Global Relations @westernu.bsky.social Co-founder @nacdi.bsky.social New book 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘈𝘳𝘵 @ubcpress.bsky.social Thinking about: cultural diplomacy, artist unions, migration museums saraheksmith.com linktr.ee/saraheksm
@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
@camillemarys.bsky.social
Postdoctorante - Postdoctoral Associate // museums & extraction // Beyond Extraction + Archives & Heritage for Palestine planning committee cmsharp.ca
@barnfeline.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 haud-ukie cat cushion and sometimes games and media researcher in amiskwaciy/Treaty 6 #BlackLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights #FreePalestine #LandBack
@jeanketterling.bsky.social
she/her ✨ PhD in Legal Studies ✨ Assistant Teaching Prof (LTA) at UNB Dept of Culture and Media Studies ✨ Interdisciplinary legal⚖️/porn🌽/games🎮 studies scholar working on sex in video games ✨
@jakeadampitre.bsky.social
a very sensitive piece of horse flesh. PhD candidate critiquing tech futures. http://unwantedutopias.substack.com. http://boxd.it/20r7.
@scottdejong.bsky.social
Making and studying games about disinformation. Fulbright scholar. PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar. scottbdejong.ca
@mathewiantorno.com
📚 PhD candidate at the University of Toronto (Faculty of Information) 🤖 Studies the history, labour, & public impact of retail automation 🍄 Part-time bread baker, mushroom hunter, and game designer 🛰️ mathewiantorno.com
@caitmckinney.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at SFU Communication Studies working on queer media history.
@cansuekmekcioglu.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Information Systems, McMaster University
@underground259.bsky.social
Environmental media studies, cinema, architecture, art, weather control. Professor. Recent book: Climatic Media. Views personal
@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
@cgsaacej.bsky.social
Canadian Game Studies Association / Association canadienne d’études des jeux. Publisher of Loading... Journal. gamestudies.ca
@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.
@videogamehistorian.bsky.social
Videogame historian extraordinaire FRQSC and SSRCH-funded PhD candidate in Videogame History and Preservation CGSA Francophone Rep Creator of Deadplay podcast
@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
@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
@arungapatchka.bsky.social
@kenzitronic.bsky.social
Settler on treaty 6, PhD candidate in feminist game studies @ ualberta, itinerant social worker, parent, usually in over my head on a wild DH scheme. She/her
@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.
@posada.website
💼 Assistant Professor @Yale.edu & SSRC Just Tech Fellow 🎓 Research on #Data + #Work + #Platforms 🌐 https://posada.website/
@danguad.bsky.social
Historian of marketing and culture / asst prof at the University of Toronto’s Institute of Communication, Culture, information & Technology