It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2020 Game Studies Preconference, "The Crossroads of Information, Interaction, Meaningfulness, and Fun." I am Shane Tilton, the vice-chair elect for the Game Studies Interest Division. I am coming to you live from Ada, OH, and the campus of Ohio Northern University,...
“All right, big, big week up at the Lodge this week.”Red Green from "The Red Green Show" This academic year has been hectic for me. I’m typically used to presenting at a few conferences and publishing one or two articles during the school year. It seems that this term has...
Convergent publishing is one of the harder courses to prepare for going into a given semester. I want to provide a platform for students to create content that reflects their interest and allows those students to apply what they have learned in the first two years of the Multimedia Journalism...
One of the central projects that have defined my time at Ohio Northern University has been to develop a new study aboard program between Communication and Media Studies and the University of Salford in Manchester, England. This partnership led to a one-off workshop between our two institutions and Point Park...
One of the more consistent requests for a class from my students was a course on memes and their impact on culture and society. Most of the students would share gifs and memes via our Slack channels. There are times that I am a little lost in the visual language,...
