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Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Political Studies - Women’s and Gender Studies Program, University of Saskatchewan.

Jean’s interdisciplinary work on videogames is rooted in legal, game and pornography studies and is informed by feminist and queer theories. She is particularly interested in sexual video games: how they represent sex, their ability to make space for experimental sexual play, and how sexual content in video games is promoted, controlled, and regulated by platforms.

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Graduate Research Assistant

Claire Kim is a Media Studies MA student in the Department of Communication at Concordia University. Claire is interested in researching the articulations in relationships between players and video games. The focus of her thesis work is on examining the ethical relationship that results from when video games break the fourth wall. She is a member of the mLab and the Concordia Technoculture Arts and Games lab.

Graduate Research Assistant

Fifi is a PhD student at the University of Toronto. She studies intimacy and the Internet. Her research addresses sex work, labor and (re)production.

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Undergraduate Research Assistant

Rachel is a fourth year undergraduate student obtaining a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. They are specifically interested in exploring how politics, gender, social, and cultural factors interact with the gaming sphere, as well as the ways censorship impacts game and other content creators.