The fall 2020 semester is ending, and I am so very tired. I used to fall sick at the end of each term with something minor but unpleasant that would demand I rest.… Read the rest The post Th...
I haven’t been blogging because, well, global pandemic: What can I say that’s useful? Not much, really. I’m as gobsmacked and listless as anyone else, and I went 6ish months without childca...
Right now, many parents are spending more time with their children and more time observing their children’s interactions with video games. As a result, parental anxiety about video games is acu...
https://www.sparklebliss.com/3-reasons-your-kid-is-freaking-out-about-their-video-game/
This special issue of Feminist Media Histories was solicited based on an SCMS panel I’d organized in 2018. In addition to articles, it includes interviews with several women game designers w...
https://www.sparklebliss.com/works/feminist-video-game-histories/
Happy Ecosystems is a card collecting game about connections in nature developed as part of the Indiecade Climate Jam . The game received the Positive Impact Award for the jam. Happy Ecosystem...
This is a season of supposed to and would have. I was supposed to be in Japan right now. I would have been planning to visit my family in July or August.… Read the rest The post A grieving s...
One day at lunch during college, Larry McMurtry came up. McMurtry, hailing from not far from my home town, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, several Oscars, and various other things, had always been ...
For those interested in graduate study in digital humanities or tech comm, come to Illinois Tech! We offer an M.S. in Technical Communication and Information Architecture (TCIA), and both an M.S...
https://www.sparklebliss.com/study-tech-and-humanities-with-me/
I just got back from a fine time at MAGfest 2020, where I presented as part of the history track in MAGES for the second year. It’s real fun! I felt really lucky to get to do that for a second ...
https://www.sparklebliss.com/how-to-support-video-game-preservation-and-history/
In Spring 2019, I got to take my first-ever sabbatical, and it really changed the shape of my year. I published less than I usually do by some measures (no journal articles for once?),… Read th...