Marina Fontolan

Are You Playing The Wrong Game? Localization and Cultural Game Studies With Dr. Marina Fontolan YouTube video by Ryan McPherson

I've participated at Ryan McPherson's Storytelling Movement Podcast!
In the episode, I nerd a bit about theme parks, talk about my research on game localization, my pedagogy in game studies and my future research on decolonial game design.

Here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i68r...

“Nós por nós”: as ações de resiliência tecidas no Complexo da Maré (RJ) e nos quilombos do Vale do Ribeira (SP) durante a pandemia da Covid-19 Resumo O objetivo deste artigo é estabelecer uma análise comparativa entre as experiências de...

And a new paper is up! It is a result of my post-doc position for ENDURE project at Unicamp, Brazil. The was written by Jana Leal, Carla Ladeira Pimentel Águas, Manuela Gomes, me, and Liliana Acero.

Access the paper here: www.scielo.br/j/rbcsoc/a/q...

I'm glad to say that me and @gennewman.bsky.social published our Special Issue on Gendered Violence in/at/around Fantasy and Horror Games @fantastic-journal.bsky.social
Here's the link: muse.jhu.edu/journal/692
I hope y'all enjoy the amazing work our contributors put together!

New paper! A result from my postdoc position!

I'm glad to announce that I've accepted an offer @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social as an associate professor of instruction at the department of communication! Besides teaching different courses on game studies, I'll also be teaching on intercultural communication. I'm very happy and excited about this!

Different engines, creative technologies: Latin America and media technology history Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Vol. 7, No. 1, 2024)

Good news! I have just published a new book review on "Different engines: media technologies from Latin America", a very interesting historical account for Latin American technologies written by Andrés Burbano. Book review published at Tapuya Latin American STS
doi.org/10.1080/2572...

July issue of ROMchip--on practices of maintenance & repair in video games--is now live!! Huge thanks to special issue guest editors Logan Brown, Marina Fontolan & Alexander Mirowski for pulling together these fascinating case studies.
https://romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journal