In the past few years, i’ve been working on better defining how technology and emergency management (EM) can play well together. It is a project that feels mostly like trying to get fire to be wet ...

Starting in 2013, I began to work in and around information communication technology being used during emergency response scenarios. I think my first paper was called, “Run Amok: Group Crowd Partic...

I am a researcher of the socio-technical that has made the jump from the social sciences, the socio, to the technical. This form of the jump is arguably more difficult because the social sciences a...

With the Coronavirus coming around, so many of us are forced indoors for a time, forced into isolation where digital tools will be forced to become the norm. We’re already seeing things like Netfli...

My first course with PICO-8 as an introductory space for games programming is just about complete. What went right? What went wrong? This post gets into the weeds and explores what I need to change...

My relationship with games and game studies is often one of curiosity. I find the concept of ‘play’ useful yet I find that ‘play’ is more useful to study something else than it is to study games th...

What is code? Why do we write it in PICO-8? What does that mean? Before getting there, some context One semester when I was new to teaching, I was asked at the last minute to teach an introductor...

Fantasy Consoles are self-contained video game development environments so incredibly constrained that users have no choice but to learn how programming works. I was once told that programming is ...

In my formative years as a student in sociology (2004–12), I was pushed into the study of games by my mentors. They felt that because of books like Barbie to Mortal Kombat, My Life as a Night Elf P...

Or how we all want to stay home instead of go on adventures. I wrote this introductory bit for my dissertation and i’m not sure it will stick with it so I thought i’d put it here. I think a lot ...