Morgan Romine
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.
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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,...
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Marriage Proposal of the Day: In what is believed to be the first proposal of marriage between two gay...
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Want in on the Ghost Recon & Ghost Recon Online betas? Pixxel shows you how. http://ow.ly/avLWV
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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...
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9yr old makes his own Cardboard Arcade.Caine is nine. And like all the best nine year-olds in the world, Caine is obsessed with video games. In...
Look what I found! #oldschool #videogames #floppydisc #loadrunner
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.
Excellent summary.
By far one of the best parts of my day today.
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…
