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Hello all,
My name is Kris Purzycki, a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. My overarching research focus is media studies but that branches out into publication production and editing, broadcasting, computer games and philosophy, and multimodal writing.
Though my background is English, my dissertation pulls from anthropology, geography, philosophy, and architecture to examine the phenomenon of game experience and how games enable placemaking. Just finished a chapter about Pokemon Go and places-out-of-place. So much fun but I’m a little tired of thinking about that particular game…
I also do a lot of work in various modes of publication and broadcasting. On the print side, I am an editor for the Proceedings of the Computers and Writing Conference and founding editor of OneShot: A Journal of Critical Games and Play, an experimental publication of games as critical texts whose inaugural issue should be out early next year. I also do a bit of live streaming but am not thrilled with the current platforms and would like to develop another service that is more academically friendly (creative commons, archiving, no advertising of connection to some global corporation…). Also have a little radio show here in Milwaukee, Screens, where Allain Daigle and I talk about screen based media every week.
Sorry about the long bit – so thrilled that Cody started this and hope we all can uncover new ways to connect, collaborate, and create some great work! I saw interest in a Discord channel. That would be fantastic.
Finally, would anyone be interested in a monthly meetup in MOO-space? I am co-wizard of PhronesisMU, a fledgling MOO (MUD object oriented) and would be thrilled to host a regular gathering place.
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