If you missed it – and let’s be honest, most everyone did – you can catch up with the episode we recorded live on the eve of the SCMS 2025 conference in Chicago. Hear about the labor of the Graduate Student Organization from the GSO rep, the power of finding joy in play from Matt Payne, and the importance of building local community from AJ Christian. (With usual apologies that the sound isn’t great.)

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SCMS Graduate Student Organization
Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism
Brooke Erin Duffy, “The romance of work: Gender and aspirational labour in the digital culture industries”
Stephanie Brown’s diss on authenticity in standup comedy

Matthew Payne’s Notre Dame page
Eugene Jarvis: King of the Arcade
Eugene Jarvis
Bloomsbury Publishing’s Influential Game Designers series
The Oregon Trail Game; play online
The Strong National Museum of Play
Learning Games Initiative
Before Your Eyes game

AJ Christian’s Northwestern page
OTV: Open Television
AJ’s 2018 book on Open TV
Forthcoming: Reparative Media: Cultivating Stories and Platforms to Heal Our Culture
Chani Nicholas
Soul! TV show
Black&Sexy TV, Revry, Kweli TV
Alexandra Juhasz
AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video

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