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Hello!
I’m Jared Hansen, a first-year PhD student at the University of Oregon. My MA thesis was on the effects of the damsel-in-distress stereotype on players of a classic Zelda game. I did a 2×2 experiment where I manipulated the genders of the hero and the victim. While I met the requirements for graduation, I’m still in the process of doing a follow-up study on that research. I co-authored a paper that was presented at ICA earlier this year that was a paratextual analysis of the Twitch Plays Pokemon event, where we analyzed the player-created pseudo-religious texts. And next month I’m presenting a paper at NCA about player motivations for playing dead MMORPGs.
I’m still trying to figure out my research interests, but I’d say I’m fascinated with video game nostalgia, the platform of Twitch, and player-avatar relations. I really look forward to networking and getting to know other researchers in this group!
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