I'm a media historian and educator at the University of Iowa whose work focuses primarily on issues of power and capital in the history of video games. Though game history can seem frivolous, games' rapid cultural and economic ascent in the past half-century has much to tell us about how people relate to technology, how labor is structured in the 21st century, and how games train us to act as good consumers under late capitalism. My primary project, which touches on all of these issues, is a history of the early (pre-iPhone) American mobile games industry that uses mobile games to tell the story of how we all became habituated to mobile media. My other work can be found above, and has appeared in Games & Culture, Technology & Culture, Horror Studies, and New Media & Society. Please feel free to contact me about any of these topics or to discuss old science fiction novels.