I study inequitable interactions enabled and enforced by mundane everyday systems that frame and regulate our experiences with digital games and media.
Recent Publication Highlights
IEEE Transactions on Games article about a collaborative, participatory research-through-design project to explore how diverse perspectives may come together to reconfigure how diversity is constructed in digital games, or any virtual setting where bodies are put into play. You can find a companion site for this project at https://ptp-project.com/
Convergence article about about precisely how we and our data become legible to digital platforms and how these inescapable, sometimes inequitable, and often intentionally opaque processes can enforce more rigid, unchanging versions of ourselves in the systems they support.
Digital Games Research Association full conference paper about diverse impressions of representation on game covers, and how it influences the experiences of diverse players and potential players.
Convergence article led by mentees that examines the phenomena of "skins" in games in the context of representation, how they can put a premium on diversity and self representation, and potentially place disproportionate financial burden on players of color.