Press Start Journal
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Press Start is an open access, peer-reviewed journal run by and for students that publishes academic research on Game Studies.
Joined May 2014
Open Call for Papers 2025🥰📢 .Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/recent grads. Submit by November 10, 2025, for a potential spot in our 2026 issue!.More details below in this thread👇.#CallForPapers #GameStudies
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RT @PS_Journal: Open Call for Papers 2025🥰📢 .Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/r….
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@sara_bimo Timur Slavgorodskii-Kazanets is a second-year Digital Media PhD student at the University of Salford, Manchester. His research focuses on understanding how video game narratives can depict socio-political issues and contribute to the construction of the player’s identity.
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Sara Bimo @sara_bimo (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Communication & Culture at York University. She examines perceptions and imaginaries of technological infrastructures and the intersection between non-rational world-making, identity formation, and political resistance.
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Mark Hines is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Kentucky. He is interested in representations of race and gender in virtual and fantastic worlds. His dissertation explores fantasy games and their racial groups since 2020.
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Ambrin Hasnain (she/her) is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country. She is interested in understanding how coloniality informs everyday practices and her research examines colonial and decolonial tropes and practices in Australian video games.
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📢Press Start is delighted to welcome our newest board members! We'll be introducing one member every day in this thread, so please give them all a warm welcome♥️.
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Our open call for papers is also now available in 19 languages! Follow the link below to see the full translations:.
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Multilingual Call for Papers The Editorial Board of Press Start invites submissions for our upcoming issues. Press Start is an open access, peer-reviewed student journal that publishes the best...
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Research articles should contain 5000-8000 words including references and abstract, submitted in our template, and in APA style. Please see our About page ( for more information and submission guidelines.
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Several authors who have contributed to the newest issue have shared their socials with us:.- Chelsea Russel: - Edward Strazd: @SimplyEdwardGG .- Joel White: - Mark Hines:
chelseasbitstream.myportfolio.com
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RT @PS_Journal: 🌟New Issue Published!!🌟.We are thrilled to announce the publication of the latest issue of Press Start! Huge thanks to all….
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-Review: Przygody cyfrowego tułacza. Interpretacje groznawcze, by Kacper Karwacki.
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-Review: Posthuman Gaming: Avatars, Gamers, and Entangled Subjectivities, by Chelsea Russell.
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-Review: The Stuff Games Are Made Of, by Luke Thomley.
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-Review: The Privilege of Play:Â A History of Hobby Games, Race, and Geek Culture, by Mark Hines.
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-“Can Ordinary Horror Games Reduce Avoidant and Safety Behaviours in Players with Anxiety Disorders?,” by Lara Wood.
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-“Riot Games’ Content Marketing Approach for VALORANT Champions 2022,” by Edward Strazd.
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“Rose-Tinted Videogames: The Influential Nature of Nostalgia in Videogame Development,” by Ember Martin.
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“How 2B[?]: The Narrative Mechanics of Posthumanism in NieR: Automata,” by Joel White.
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