I am a PhD candidate currently performing an ethnography of participants in hacker wargames, often referred to as “capture the flag” competitions. In previous work I have studied the impact of surveillance in the design of videogame platforms.
Hacker Studies, Information Security Internet Studies, Surveillance and Game Studies
MI University of Toronto, Faculty of Information Studies 2014
Master’s Thesis: Playing Spy Games: a Surveillant Platform Study of the Xbox 360
Specialization in Identity, Privacy and Security (at IPSI)
Advisor: Dr. Leslie Regan Shade
MA Wilfrid Laurier University, History 2012
Cognate Essay: “God’s Cartoonist: Christian Fundamentalist Comic Books”
Advisor: Dr. Darren Mulloy
BA Wilfrid Laurier University, English & History 2007
Did Iran Launch a Cyberattack Against the US? Probably Not, New Report Says
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vvbj58/did-iran-launch-a-cyberattack-against-the-us-probably-not-new-report-says
Video game companies are collecting massive amounts of data about you
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/12/29/how-much-data-are-video-games-collecting-about-you.html
