A long time ago, as a shy 12-year-old, I mustered up the courage to ask a boy if I could join his Dungeons and Dragons club. Games were too rough. Too tough. There was fighting. There were dragons. The dungeon master, who shall remain nameless here, told me by way…

Here’s a growing list of the board game channels I love, and content creators who have played a role in my interest in board games.

Social shaping of technology theory (SST) as defined by Mackenzie and Wajcman (1999), and Baym (2015), explores how human create technologies, such as games, to serve, support, and enhance their own political, social, economic, and communicative power. These technologies, shaped with these very human motivations in mind, privilege some publics…

I am still trying to process my outrage at the ongoing occupations of Canadian cities and international border crossings by a handful of foreign-funded, entitled anti-vaxxers and white supremacists. …

Something has been bugging me since the so-called Freedom Convoy “trucker” protests came to Toronto on Feb. 5 and 6, 2022. There were media and social media photos of lines of dozens of tractors lining Toronto streets. …

I am a relatively rare kind of scholar. I study board games. There are many, many more academics who look at digital games. Those who focus on tabletop games are much fewer in number. I don’t regret my academic focus. Board games are an art form, an ancient, entrenched part…

I’m a full-time graduate student at an Ontario university. I went back to school after a career in high tech and life sciences. Returning to school at some point always made sense to me. I’ve always been a life-long learner, champion reader, and deeply curious person. …

Warning: This article contains minor spoilers for the Todd and the Book of Pure Evil series. In the Beginning: There Was ‘God’s Country’ I came of age during the early 80s in the middle of the bible-belt Canadian Prairies and Western Canada, in what was known to locals as “God’s country.” Idle chatter about the dangers of…

When I returned to graduate school, I was hoping to construct an entirely new career based on empathy training in the workplace. …