Research
Read how they describe their research on their Concordia University profile.
Latest papers
Play the Pain: A Digital Strategy for Play-Oriented Research and Action.
Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021
The Missing Producer: Rethinking indie cultural production in terms of entrepreneurship, relational labour, and sustainability
European Journal of Cultural Studies · 2018
Megabooth: The cultural intermediation of indie games
New Media & Society · 2017 · senior author
Latest funding
- $309,947
The Politics of Open Models
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $58,837
Material Allegories and Minecraft
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
- $120,614
Material Allegories and Minecraft
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
3 publications.
Play the Pain: A Digital Strategy for Play-Oriented Research and Action.
Khalili-Mahani N, Holowka E, Woods S, Khaled R, Roy M, Lashley M, Glatard T, Timm-Bottos J, Dahan A, Niesters M, Hovey RB, Simon B, Kirmayer LJ
The Missing Producer: Rethinking indie cultural production in terms of entrepreneurship, relational labour, and sustainability
Jennifer R. Whitson, Bart Simon, Felan Parker
Megabooth: The cultural intermediation of indie games
Felan Parker, Jennifer R. Whitson, Bart Simon
The Politics of Open Models
Principal investigators: McKelvey, Fenwick
Material Allegories and Minecraft
Principal investigators: Wershler, Darren S.
Keywords: video games; Minecraft; modding; modders; allegory; play and games; serious games; leisure; consumption; decolonization
Material Allegories and Minecraft
Principal investigators: Wershler, Darren S.
Keywords: video games; Minecraft; modding; modders; allegory; play and games; serious games; leisure; consumption; decolonization
Infrastructures of Ethnography
Principal investigators: Hetherington, Kregg
Keywords: ethnography; infrastructure; multimodal methods
Infrastructures of Ethnography
Principal investigators: Hetherington, Kregg
Keywords: ethnography; infrastructure; multimodal methods
Scaling Liveness in Participatory Experiences
Principal investigators: Hughes, Lynn A.
Keywords: participatory experience; digital-physical games; participatory theatre; larps; liveness; intimacy; scale
Indie Interfaces: Examining Independent Game Development Support Networks
Principal investigators: Parker, Felan
Keywords: (1) digital games; (2) video games; (3) independent games; (4) indie games; (5) game development; (6) gaming culture; (7) gaming audiences
Re-figuring innovation in games
Keywords: digital games; gender; innovation; games industry; learning; gender-based discrimination; game studies
Digital Economy - Computer games and Canada's digital economy
Principal investigators: Gouglas, Sean W.
Out of control: playful technocultures and video games
Principal investigators: Simon, Bart
Keywords: digital culture; play; interface; video games; bodies; space
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Laurence Kirmayer and Myrna Lashley: 2 shared papers
- Richard Hovey and Mathieu Roy: 2 shared papers
- Jennifer Whitson and Bart Simon: 2 shared papers
- Laurence Kirmayer and Richard Hovey: 1 shared paper
- Laurence Kirmayer and Mathieu Roy: 1 shared paper
- Laurence Kirmayer and Tristan Glatard: 1 shared paper
- Laurence Kirmayer and Rilla Khaled: 1 shared paper
- Laurence Kirmayer and Janis Timm-Bottos: 1 shared paper
- Laurence Kirmayer and Bart Simon: 1 shared paper
- Richard Hovey and Tristan Glatard: 1 shared paper
- Richard Hovey and Rilla Khaled: 1 shared paper
- Richard Hovey and Janis Timm-Bottos: 1 shared paper
- Richard Hovey and Myrna Lashley: 1 shared paper
- Richard Hovey and Bart Simon: 1 shared paper
- Mathieu Roy and Tristan Glatard: 1 shared paper
- Mathieu Roy and Rilla Khaled: 1 shared paper
- Mathieu Roy and Janis Timm-Bottos: 1 shared paper
- Mathieu Roy and Myrna Lashley: 1 shared paper
- Mathieu Roy and Bart Simon: 1 shared paper
- Tristan Glatard and Bart Simon: 1 shared paper
- Rilla Khaled and Bart Simon: 1 shared paper
- Janis Timm-Bottos and Bart Simon: 1 shared paper
- Myrna Lashley and Bart Simon: 1 shared paper
- Milieux
- Stratford/Sociology and Legal Studies
- Provost Fellow for Community Engagement, Fine Arts
- Department of Anthropology
- Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain
- Department of Psychiatry
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
- Other
Co-authors at Concordia University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Jennifer Whitson
Stratford/Sociology and Legal Studies
2 shared papers, latest 2018
Richard Hovey
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Mathieu Roy
Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Tristan Glatard
Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Rilla Khaled
Milieux
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Janis Timm-Bottos
Provost Fellow for Community Engagement, Fine Arts
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Laurence Kirmayer
Department of Anthropology
1 shared papers, latest 2021
Myrna Lashley
Department of Psychiatry
1 shared papers, latest 2021
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