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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

The Scholar’s Codex is available for pre-purchase, published by @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social ! I’m so amazed to be part of such a well-crafted collection (the illustrations are gorgeous) edited by @domford.bsky.social, @gua-le-ni.com, @nelevdm.bsky.social and @danielvella.bsky.social.

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Tune & Fairweather @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

With contributions by: Editors Dom Ford (@domford.bsky.social) Stefano Gualeni (@gua-le-ni.com) Nele Van de Mosselaer (@nelevdm.bsky.social) Daniel Vella (@danielvella.bsky.social) Authors Andrea Andiloro (@aandiloro.bsky.social) Angelo M. Andriano Marco Caracciolo Stefano Caselli

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

I’m very excited to share my latest article, “Premiers to Pixels: The Discourse of Cinema Envy in 1990s Videogame Magazines”, now published in the Hollywood and Games special issue of Convergence, edited by Helen Stuckey and Angela Ndalianis. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I’m so incredibly proud of my students who showcased their games to tens of thousands of people at PAX Australia. They worked so hard, and visitors loved it!!!

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

It's Melbourne International Games Week! Swinburne University of Technology's Games & Interactivity students are going to be showcasing their capstone projects at PAX Australia over the course of the next three days.

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I'm very proud to announce that our Games and Interactivity team was awarded the Swinburne University 2025 School Teaching Excellence Awards. A well-deserved recognition for a (dare I say) excellent team of educators

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Very proud of our students showcasing their games at Swinburne University’s Open Day!

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Had a fantastic time at DiGRA 2025 in Malta. It’s been great catching up with old friends, meeting new ones, and putting names on faces. The ANZ contingent performed excellently, contributing to the global academic discourse on games and play.

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I am beyond stoked to share my latest publication on Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, for the special issue on 'Grief in the Digital Age' edited by Marilyn Stendera and Regina Fabry.

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

For those interested in media and immersion, I have a newly published chapter titled "Video Game Immersion as Bodily Atmospheric Attunement" in the edited collection "States of Immersion Across Media: Bodies, Techniques, Practices" for the Amsterdam University Press. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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States of Immersion Across Media

Immersion across media opens our perception to altered states of consciousness. Far from disconnecting us from our surroundings, these experiences reframe how we connect to the world and to others. In...

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I'm very proud to announce that my PhD dissertation 'Something in the Air: A Phenomenology of Videogame Atmosphere' won the 2024 Digital Games Research Association of Australia (DiGRAA)'s Best Thesis Award. The dissertation is available at: figshare.swinburne.edu.au/articles/the...

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Something in the Air: A Phenomenology of Videogame Atmosphere

This dissertation presents a theorisation of videogame atmosphere from a phenomenological perspective. Atmosphere and atmospheric attunements are taken to be fundamental phenomena which come before an...

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

If anyone is into Metal Gear Solid, there's a new edited collection out for which I've written a chapter - the foreword is by Solid Snake himself!: www.bloomsbury.com/au/metal-gea.... My chapter is titled "Metal Gaze Suture: Analyzing Metal Gear Solid through Psychoanalytic Film Theory"

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The Metal Gear Solid Series

This collection, arriving in the wake of the 25th anniversary of 1998's Metal Gear Solid, provides scholars and fans alike with a wide-ranging selection of crit…

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Very proud of this one - an article for the Journal of Posthumanism's special issue 'Posthumanism and Media Studies', edited by the excellent @poppywilde.bsky.social and JJ Sylvia IV. In it, I address some common criticism of #posthumanism in #gamestudies, namely that it does not really

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

every academic you meet is fighting their own battle. Make it worse by asking them how the writing is going

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Kind of topical - sharing here too a recent publication, co-authored with Steven Conway for the European Journal of American Culture's special issue on "Games, American Culture and the Trump Presidency". The article is titled "MAGA (Metamodernism as Game Aesthetic)". Trump has often been described..

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 03/06/2024

My article for Replay just got published. I take a critical look at #cozy games, drawing connection between game design and Danish #hygge aesthetics. The article is part of a special issue on coziness in game, so go check it out! czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/Replay/article…

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Andrea Andiloro, PhD @aandiloro.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

I attended the Digital Games Research Association Australia (DiGRAA) conference this week, presenting part of my research on videogame ontology through an analysis of myth-hunting in #GrandTheftAuto. I had great discussions and exchange of ideas with some brilliant games researchers and learned….

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