What We Do
The Media Resonance Network.
Connecting to Game’s main goal is to bring you (the readers, the listeners, and the viewers) longer form articles, podcasts (including produced episodes and interviews with academics and games industry folks), video essays and game streams covering a wide variety of topics.
Starting with our Humour and Games podcast, we’ve tried to approach the meeting point between humour, culture and games from both the academic side, and the industry side where professionals operate day by day.
The plan going forward is to continue approaching games (analog and digital) with that same mindset, while providing you with high quality reflections and analysis.
Welcome, and please get ready, we’re Connecting to Game!
Our Team
A perpetual child of the late 80s, Andrei’s first experience with games was picking up a Sega Genesis in 1992 and staring at Sonic running across Chemical Zone. It’s all been downhill (or uphill depending on how you look at it) from there!
Andrei’s a part-time Assistant Professor in Communications at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. He’s a co-author on the forthcoming Microstreaming on Twitch (under contract with MIT Press). Elsewhere, Andrei’s research has covered a wide range of topics from culture in games, stereotyping of Eastern Europe. He’s also published on monetization models and the increasing overlap of gambling and game technologies.
Marc Lajeunesse
Marc learned to read by playing the first Final Fantasy on his mother’s lap. Throughout his life games and play have been fundamental to his experience of the world. After living several different lives playing music and teaching in Japan, Marc has dedicated this phase of his existence to understanding games, and helping others understand how games have become woven into our modern lives.
Marc’s academic research focuses on toxicity in online games. He is driven to understand toxic phenomena in order to help create more positive conditions within games with the ultimate hope that we can produce more equitable and joyful play experiences for more people. He has published on the Steam marketplace and DOTA 2, and is a co-author of the upcoming Microstreaming on Twitch (under contract with MIT Press). Marc is the Coordinator of the TAG Research Center, as well as part-time faculty in the English department at Concordia University.
Elizabeth Eraña
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Safa Hachi
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