Aleena Chia is a lecturer in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. She researches video game production cultures and digital wellness practices to understand how technologies of automation and ideologies of optimisation impact inequalities in cultural production (and public culture). Her research on videogames analyses game engines and production cultures. Her work on wellness investigates lucid dreaming, neuro-wearables, and disconnection from social media.
Dr. Chia received her PhD in Communication and Culture from Indiana University in 2017 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies in 2018. She joined Simon Fraser University as an assistant professor in 2019, before moving to Goldsmiths in 2021. |
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Keynote at IEEE Conference on Games, August 2024
Podcast Interview by Susannah Crockford, June 2024
Plenary talk at Now Play This, London Games Festival, April 2024
a.chia (at) gold.ac.uk