Dr. Poppy Wilde

Today I covered cancel culture with my students. We looked at definitions from Ng and Hudley who talk about cancelling as an individual act of withdrawal of support - a form of activisim against issues we don't have much power to control. So, find me at bsky.app/profile/poppyw…

Vice Chancellors taking home millions while staff are offered just 1.4%. The hypocrisy at the top of higher education has never been clearer. Join us live as we expose it and talk about what comes next. Thursday. 7 PM. youtube.com/live/rZRbCP0YJ… #WeAreTheUniversity

Great to present on horror videogames at British DiGRA in Birmingham today. Thanks to @PoppyWilde & team for the event!

Join us and our line-up of fantastic speakers on 21st May for our joint @MeCCSARace and @meccsawmsn event Paradoxes of Visibility: Negotiating Race and Gender in the UK Political and Media Landscape! Register here: tinyurl.com/4mn29cc4

I'm rarely on here (find me on BlueSky!) but thought I'd drop this here as I've just posted a round up review of my 2024 conferences and presentations, to share some of the ideas I've been working on and how these have developed across events. #GameStudies bcmcr.org/research/2024c…

Delighted to be running this conference with @matt_grimes @MyBCU. We are hoping to highlight the impact of media, culture, and society in shaping transgressive identities and subjectivities. Full #CFP details in link on quoted post #MediaStudies #CulturalStudies #IdentityStudies

🚨 2 weeks left to submit your abstracts for British DiGRA 2025! 🚨 This year's theme: "What is British Games Research?" Share your work and join the conversation with game researchers nationwide. What do YOU do? Let us know! #CFP & details: bcmcr.org/bdigra/ #GameStudies

My article revisits McLuhan's concept of media ecology and discusses its limitations, "classical media ecology remains anthropocentric, representational, instrumental, and transmissional, firmly anchored in the modern rationalistic, and liberal intellectual tradition".

This article is part of a larger project on games and the post-Anthropocene. I am currently interested in how the Anthropocene might “leak” into our entertainment practices, and how players’ responses might shed light on the anxieties generated by the Age of Man

Excited to be part of this issue of the Journal of Games Criticism curated by @larry7m and @PoppyWilde. My article explores some methodological implications in the study of games and the Anthropocene, focussing on a re-evaluation of the notion of scale. gamescriticism.org

The special issue features a diverse and fascinating collection of works, covering a wide range of scopes and approaches, all of which explore the common concerns and potential connections between the two fields. Edited by @PoppyWilde and J.J. Sylvia IV journals.tplondon.com/jp/issue/view/…

Our next event: Thu 11 Dec, 4pm-5.30pm. Join us in person or online to hear from an exciting industry panel w/ @CoreyBrotherson @Darji_Meera @pennycenturyy to discuss this year's research theme 'Transgressive Identities and Subjectivities'. Info & tox bcmcr.org/event/bcmcr-ev…

Anyone else at Engaging the Contemporary 2024 in Turin next week? Theme is "Intersections: Human/Nonhuman Relations". Really looking forward to engaging with some posthuman discourse and seeing what everyone is up to!

✨New article!✨ For @Gender_Journal, @sbanetweiser and I write about the rise of the "post-authentic" white woman con artist on television and the ambivalent backlash against con capitalism in/through popular culture. Read here or DM me for a copy👇 🔗tinyurl.com/yeszur97

Calling post-grad students of #death, #dying, #grief, #bereavement #cemeteries #graveyards .... join me for an hour discussing death research with other PGRs. Friendly, informal, no pressure! @asds_death Book at eventbrite.co.uk/e/asds-postgra… Please repost!

For businesses who want to engage with media - to promote your work, share your expertise, or handle tricky situations - @MyBCU is offering a one-day CPD Media Training course. Taking place on Mon 4 November - limited space! bcu.ac.uk/courses/media-… #MediaTraining #Birmingham #CPD

Anna Wilde (@Another_Shore), a PhD student based @unibirmingham, shares what it means to be death positive, and how talking about and preparing for death can enrich our lives, reminding us to be grateful for each day we have. Read more: ow.ly/BVPQ50TGF9g 💙 #AfterWards

Blog post exploring what it means to be #deathpositive by me for @PilgrimsHospice

This is Willy. He has very floppy ears and has never received an email. Living the dream. 13/10

Aca-Werewolf-Colleagues. I have a book on Future Werewolves for Bloomsbury and need a 5-6,000 word essay on werewolf/Lycan hybridity in the Underworld franchise. I don’t need it til September 2025, but need someone in place now. If interested contact me at: baconetti@gmail.com