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Monster Studies

Notes from a monstrous workshop, CEEGS 2017

This year’s CEEGS conference, which took place the last September week of 2017 in Trnava,...

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Monster Studies

Monster diary #3: Lessons from ancient and medieval monsters

As I noted in my previous post, video game monsters have so far not attracted...

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Online Sociolinguistics

New “Grammar Nazi” article out

In 2013, me and my American-born and Prague-based sociolinguist colleague, Tamah Sherman, started a research side...

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Monster Studies

Monster diary #2: Monsters of my youth

As I promised last time, I am going to write a bit about my personal...

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Monster Studies

Monster diary #1: Why study video game monsters?

Hello! My name is Jaroslav and I joined the GTA team in July to research...

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Game Studies

On LGBT players of BioWare games

The Cyberpsychology journal has just published “Dressing Commander Shepard in pink”, an article about the experience...

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Game Studies, Monster Studies

Monsters by the Numbers

My critique of video game monsters, published in the 2013’s Monster Culture in the 21st...

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Game history, Game Studies

Australian games in Czechoslovakia

A couple of months ago, my Australian game historian friends asked me if there were...

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Game history

Progress update: Games behind the Iron Curtain

It’s already been a year since I defended a dissertation on the history of computer...

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Game Studies

CEEGS 2014 FTW

On October 10-11, me and my colleagues from the MU Game Studies association organized the...

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