BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
Can't help but think of Sara Ahmed's powerful analysis of "diversity work" & what she described as the gap between the university’s symbolic commitment to diversity & the lived & often exhausting reality for faculty & students of color & other underrepresented groups on campus.
"Rad Dudes, Rude 'Tude, and the Family, Too: How Nintendo and Sega Advertisements Shaped the Image of Gaming in the 1990s," my latest co-authored article with Dr. Megan Condis, just got accepted at Games: Research and Practice!
It's a giant content analysis of thousands of old game ads. 👍
New book release! Absolutely massive double volume set on Game Genre edited by Gerald Voorhees, Joshua Call, Matthew Wysocki and Betsy Brey is out now from Bloomsbury.
Book Announcement: Genres are social conventions ratified by creators and audiences, and so they are inherently political commitments that express our attachments and antagonisms to the cultural and political systems that organize our relationswith one another, our environments, and the world.
Thanks to @kishonna.bsky.social, TreAndrea Russworm, @neveahfs.bsky.social, @jzagal.bsky.social, Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfield, and @burnedprof.bsky.social for their endorsements.
And to the 40+ contributing authors who shared this vision and labour with the editors.
Epistemic Genres centres the players and communities who make constellations of games meaningful.
Emerging Genres centres the games and game assemblages players and communities invest with meaning.
Ask your library to buy these books! (More affordable softcover editions coming next year)
Book Announcement: Genres are social conventions ratified by creators and audiences, and so they are inherently political commitments that express our attachments and antagonisms to the cultural and political systems that organize our relationswith one another, our environments, and the world.
Excited that these books are now available! A labour of love with some wonderful people.
Me, a professor: *orders a course pack*
Campus bookstore: give us two months to make sure these 18 copies you requested you don’t violate any publisher’s copyright
Me, an AI company: *violates every publisher’s copyright*
Campus bookstore: we will pay you to offer your services to all students
Sports coat? Fancy…
Always a great conference!!
Generative conversations, great people, and an amazing location.
Hope to see some of you there!
🎉🔥🎉ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉🔥🎉DAY🎉🔥🎉
Jonathan Rey Lee’s book on CATAN is almost out. It’s the first in the Tabletop Gaming series that Paul Booth and I have been hard at work editing this past three years. Anyway, the book is fantastic. Please consider it and share with the right people.
Visa and Mastercard have the opportunity to do something really funny.
Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd
Book cover for "Girlhood Game: Gender, Identity, and Coming of Age in Video Games." A youthful feminine bedroom is depicted, centring on a computer desk setup with game accessories.
My book is out! 💗
Girlhood Games: Gender, Identity and Coming of Age in Videogames is a 6-year-long labour of love for young adult stories, teen heroines in videogames and unnoticed girly game histories.
Thank you @livvy.itch.io for the beautiful cover!
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Our latest issue of Analog Game Studies is now available!
Daniel Lawson on transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Hugh O’Donnell on tabletop simulations, Brian Jason Thomas on Taskmaster & mental health, and Keith Jones on Around the World in 80 Games.
#StayAnalog
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Brand-new International Journal of Role-Playing issue, this time on the topic of Consent in RPGs. @suzphdm.bsky.social served as Special Issue Editor on this one, and we are thrilled to see it in the world.
journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/v...
Not sure why folks on the left are cheering right wing infighting.
The night of the long knives was the nazis killing other nazis to consolidate power
This groundhog was giving me side-eye from grabbing apples off a tree on a public street.
Share the apples, buddy!
This has been a project long in the making, and evolving from several years of conversations with good friends and colleagues. I'm beyond proud to have worked with everyone to help bring these to life.
TOCs can be found on webpage for each book: www.bloomsbury.com/ca/series/ap...
Thanks to @neveahfs.bsky.social, @jzagal.bsky.social, Ashleigh Cassemere-Stanfieldm, @kishonna.bsky.social, and TreaAndrea Russworm for insightful endorsements,
to the 40+ chapter contributors for their thoughtful scholarship (and patience)
and to Carolyn Jong for the amazing pixel art cover
Genre is inherently political. It captures the sensibilities of contemporary life and strategies for responding to the present that cultivate different futures
Updated/Final covers for a passion-project w/ @joshcall.bsky.social, @profmatthew.bsky.social, and @betsybrey.bsky.social
Out Jan 2026!
Pre-announcement of a funding opportunity for "artificial intelligence humanities sandpits," supported by AHRC, EPSRC, and SSHRC. Expressions of interest by 31 Oct; up to four grants will be funded.
The BDS movement is calling for people to pressure Microsoft with divestment and exclusion from contracts, whenever feasible. We also call for boycotting Microsoft’s gaming products, with the following options as tiers of engagement: Cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription. Boycott Candy Crush, Minecraft and Call of Duty – flagship videogame franchises owned by Microsoft. Boycott all Microsoft Gaming products, including Xbox-branded consoles, headsets, accessories and all games published by Microsoft-owned publishing labels (such as Xbox Game Studios, Activision, Bethesda and Blizzard).
And I've obviously been saying this a lot lately, but BDS does not expect anyone to drop everything made by Microsoft all at once. They pick very specific targets in order to get as wide a coalition as possible, and in the case of Xbox, even suggest different tiers of engagement.
Cover thumbnail and quotes for the book Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play by Florence M. Chee
Happy to share that my book, Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play, is now available on the Bloomsbury U.S. site! Thank you again to those who took the time to review and engage with the work! 🙏🏼
#syllabus #gamestudies #communication
www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-g...
Missed Generation Analog 2025?
Want to revisit a panel or lecture?
Conference videos are now live! Peruse the "PUNK" playlist now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Academia is rewriting the same research proposal 5 times to make different groups of people like you.
Not even 1 year after imposing austerity on liberal arts programs and suspending Hispanic Studies, Liberal Studies, and German Studies.
These scholarships are wrought from the sweat and tears of Queens faculty, staff, and students
