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profjay.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Game Studies. GPD MA in Game Studies. Brock University, dept. of Digital Humanities.
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Ontario voted for continued decline in health care, education, smart infrastructure, and competence, but an increase in places to buy booze. And the Ontario Liberals choosing Bonnie Crombie was an absolute self-immolation.

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You might say it's a Rockstar event: In the new GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES, CMRN and Michael talk history and genre with Sara Humphreys' MANIFEST DESTINY 2.0: GENRE TROUBLE IN GAME WORLDS, looking at Red Dead Redemption, LA Noire, and their American mythologies. rangedtouch.com/2025/02/27/7...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It’s election day in Ontario and universities and colleges need your help. Ontario colleges and universities are facing drastic program cuts, layoffs and campus closures. Don’t forget to vote today – tell the Ontario government they need to act NOW to save PSE.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Just watched the Trump Gaza video and whoever wrote a couple weeks ago about generative AI being the new aesthetics of fascism could not have asked for a better case in point

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

Hochul’s move here is profoundly racist and dehumanizing. Defining Palestinian studies as fundamentally antisemitic means defining Palestinians as something to be erased. It is genocidal. This is also an unacceptable attack on academic freedom. The governor should have no say in faculty hiring.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

All this bullshit immediately crumbles when it's presented to anyone who's not a sympathetic cohost on your podcast

submitted 7 days ago • 156 comments

Two weeks left to apply for this awesome job! Great colleagues, fantastic students, and a strong faculty union.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

im sorry but video games just aren’t profitable….. call of duty only made ceo doug duty 20000000 dollars this year so you can see why we have to fire everybody

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Ontario has been underfunding universities for decades, with Ford putting his foot on the accelerator HARD.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

People who decide to do this—during a time that open fascist hate is normalized and empowered and all opposition is suppressed, framing the real problem as attaining a base level of awareness of others and taking basic steps to include those others in their language—know exactly what they are doing.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

I have a new-ish article out with Arianna Maiorani on the semiotics of movement in Street Fighter V. Full issue in the link below! punctum.gr

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

There are critics of DEI who point to its historic use as a way to capture the rhetoric of social justice movements and mitigate the transformative potential of anti discrimination law, and then there are critics of DEI who think race and sex discrimination is good.

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

Join us for Hidden Gamers: Recovering Black Figures in Video Game History, a public lecture from @theblackblackmage.bsky.social! Monday, February 24 2025 at 1:30 PM experiencebu.brocku.ca/event/286071

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to announce that we're looking for a tenure-track hire in Game Studies! Our department is home to two fantastic undergraduate programs in games/interactive media, and Canada's first MA in Game Studies program. Please share! brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/brocku...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Excited to announce that we're looking for a tenure-track hire in Game Studies! Our department is home to two fantastic undergraduate programs in games/interactive media, and Canada's first MA in Game Studies program. Please share! brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/brocku...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Happy to have left the hell site and be more active here. I mostly post about games, research and higher ed. Firm believer that videogames is one word

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment