I am a techno anthropologist studying culture in online games. I recently retired from my role as the Team Captain of the Frag Dolls (an all-female professional gaming team), and am now daylighting as the eSports Maven for Red 5 Studios. We are making Firefall, the game and fieldsite of my dreams.
Gamers know me as "Rhoulette".
For more about my research, see Games, Virtual Worlds, and CyberSociality, a group in Computer and Information Science, Social Sciences, Design on Mendeley.
Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like,...
Marriage Proposal of the Day: In what is believed to be the first proposal of marriage between two gay...
Want in on the Ghost Recon & Ghost Recon Online betas? Pixxel shows you how. http://ow.ly/avLWV
PMS Texas: My life as a disabled gamer
When I was born, my parents had been expecting a healthy baby…boy. Instead, the received a surprise...
Caine is nine. And like all the best nine year-olds in the world, Caine is obsessed with video games. In...
I love stories with happy endings. And uplifting middles. And only sorta upsetting beginnings. This is the rare tale that both rides that grin-coaxing
Brosie the Riveter: Game Industry gender play in the Hawken/Meteor offices. I love the CEO’s reaction.

Do you have a recommendation for a blog/site that reviews the best games for kids (12 or under)? I want those and personal recommendations for the games themselves.
As I collect names of resources and games, I will post a compiled list here.
This was prompted by several friends with kids asking me for recommendations for their 4-5 year olds. Being able to play co-op with their mini-gamers has been a common interest. I think my network of well-educated gamer parents can help!
Please post your recommendations on any of my social media pages.
I live at the intersection of Craft Beer Hipsters and Where Football Fabs Get Their Dreams Crushed Annually. Sounds about right. :) I <3 San Diego.
A fascinating example of social media being used to mislead through the creation of a romance mythology.
Usually, these stories involve an individual creating a new identity in representing themselves to another person or community using online tech and social media. Here we see the creation of a romantic persona through intentional misrepresentation to a broader public, using social media to captivate and court mainstream media and their audience.
The story is fun and lurid by its own merits, but I plan to chew more on the implications of social media being used for this kind of storytelling.
Warning: Strong language.
I won’t link to the offending article.
What I will do is point to some awesome Tweeple to follow (@allithrasher, @leighalexander, @rhoulette, @_gtz_, @auntiepixelante) for more well-reasoned discussion. I am seriously burnt out, and the following may actually make no…