Biography

I am a Leeds United supporter. In my day-job I am a Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the Media School, Indiana University.  I also co-edit the MIT Press Game Histories Book Series with Henry Lowood. In 2019 I will launch the new online only journal, ROMChip: A Journal of Game History

I have written the following books: Game After: A Cultural Study of Video Game Afterlife (MIT Press, 2014), Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and co-edited The Object Reader (with Fiona Candlin, Routledge, 2009) and Popular Culture: A Reader (with Omayra Zaragoza Cruz, Sage, 2005). Recently I co-edited Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon (MIT Press, 2016) with Henry Lowood. My writings on game history appear in many journals and magazines including: American Journal of Play, Cabinet, Design Issues, Design and Culture, Game Studies, Journal of Design History, Journal of Visual Culture, and Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture.  Many of my articles can be downloaded via academia.edu

I am also in the thick of researching my next single-authored book, Atari Design: An Industrial and Graphic Design History of Atari’s Coin-Op Cabinets, 1972 – 1979 (Bloomsbury Academic).Future writing plans include a short book on William Higinbotham’s 1958 analog computer simulation, a collection devoted to EA Sport’s FIFA, and a book on Cultural Studies and Design.

In my leisure time I collect vinyl records, hang out with my son, and support the Sweden National Football Team and Leeds United— “Until The World Stops Going Round”. MOT/ALAW