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Marina Fontolan @marinafontolan.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I've participated at Ryan McPherson's Storytelling Movement Podcast! In the episode, I nerd a bit about theme parks, talk about my research on game localization, my pedagogy in game studies and my future research on decolonial game design. Here's the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=i68r...

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Are You Playing The Wrong Game? Localization and Cultural Game Studies With Dr. Marina Fontolan

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Marina Fontolan @marinafontolan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

And a new paper is up! It is a result of my post-doc position for ENDURE project at Unicamp, Brazil. The was written by Jana Leal, Carla Ladeira Pimentel Águas, Manuela Gomes, me, and Liliana Acero. Access the paper here: www.scielo.br/j/rbcsoc/a/q...

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“Nós por nós”: as ações de resiliência tecidas no Complexo da Maré (RJ) e nos quilombos do Vale do Ribeira (SP) durante a pandemia da Covid-19

Resumo O objetivo deste artigo é estabelecer uma análise comparativa entre as experiências de...

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Marina Fontolan @marinafontolan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I'm glad to say that me and @gennewman.bsky.social published our Special Issue on Gendered Violence in/at/around Fantasy and Horror Games @fantastic-journal.bsky.social Here's the link: muse.jhu.edu/journal/692 I hope y'all enjoy the amazing work our contributors put together!

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Marina Fontolan @marinafontolan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

New paper! A result from my postdoc position!

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Marina Fontolan @marinafontolan.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I'm glad to announce that I've accepted an offer @utsaroadrunners.bsky.social as an associate professor of instruction at the department of communication! Besides teaching different courses on game studies, I'll also be teaching on intercultural communication. I'm very happy and excited about this!

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Marina Fontolan @marinafontolan.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Good news! I have just published a new book review on "Different engines: media technologies from Latin America", a very interesting historical account for Latin American technologies written by Andrés Burbano. Book review published at Tapuya Latin American STS doi.org/10.1080/2572...

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Different engines, creative technologies: Latin America and media technology history

Published in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society (Vol. 7, No. 1, 2024)

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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 01/08/2023

July issue of ROMchip--on practices of maintenance & repair in video games--is now live!! Huge thanks to special issue guest editors Logan Brown, Marina Fontolan & Alexander Mirowski for pulling together these fascinating case studies. romchip.org/index.php/romchip-journ…

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ROMchip

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is a platform designed for the advancement of critical historical studies of games.

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