SCHOLARLY WRITING
I have completed two undergraduate degrees at the University of Toronto, in Criminology and Cinema. I have a Master's degree from the University of Toronto, in Media Studies. Additionally, I completed a college program in Video Game Design and Development. Currently, I am a doctoral candidate (ABD), working on a PhD in Semiotics.
I have produced and published essays on a variety of topics in Mass Media Semiotics.
In 2020, I taught my first course in Game Studies and have a page at this site for academic work focused on game studies.
I have produced and published essays on a variety of topics in Mass Media Semiotics.
In 2020, I taught my first course in Game Studies and have a page at this site for academic work focused on game studies.
Game Semiotics
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The start of my doctoral work focused on Quality of Experience vs Quality of Service issues in online multiplayer video games, with special attention to lag/latency with Gears of War games (Epic Games). Later, my work transitioned to a focus on "failure" in video games, largely inspired by the work of Jesper Juul (The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark). The project began with intense study of the mobile strategy game, Gods of Olympus (Aegis Interactive). The monograph for GoO is here.
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Peer-Reviewed Published Work
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Staines, D., Consalvo, M., Stangeby, A., Pedraça, S. (2018) State of Play: Games and Moral Dilemmas. The 68th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Prague
Staines, D., Consalvo, M., Stangeby, A., Pedraça, S., “State of Play: Video Games and Moral Engagement”, Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 11:3 (2019) |
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"The Paradox of Devotion"
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I was assigned to write a policy brief and instead took some liberties in writing a piece that would hopefully have wider readership. The topic I chose examines FanExpo in Toronto, and makes a recommendation for how there could be a more responsible enforcement of copyright law for fanart at the convention. This was my final piece of academic writing.
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Doctoral Exams
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"Presence and Dark Play"
Field: Game Studies and Media Semiotics |
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"The Dialectic Encoding/Decoding Model"
Field: Reception Studies and Media Semiotics |
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Best Essays
My most polished scholarly work is available to read at Academia.edu, After all my years of research and writing at the university, there are less than a dozen pieces that I am proud of and think back on fondly. At the bottom of this page you will find a zip folder with all my academic writing and work of note.
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THE BRADBURY BUILDING - CINEMATIC FETISH LOCATION
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RENOIR AND THE APPARATUS - CINEMATIC PANOPTICISM
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CLOSED TEXTS AND PASSIVE MASSES - TELEVISION HOST AS RE-ENCODER
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THE AMBIVALENT OBJECTS IN JAN SVANKMAJER'S LESSON FAUST
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TOWARD AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE COPYRIGHT CRISIS
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THE XENOMORPH PROJECT: TAXONOMY OF THE CREATURE; TEXTUALITY OF THE ALIEN
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CREATIVE EXHIBITION MANAGEMENT - WILLIAM CASTLE'S GIMMICKS AND THE B-MOVIE
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BLACK OPTIMISM - THE ANIMATED FILMS OF DUSAN VUKOTIC
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