Michel Maksimova

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communication phd student. something something capitalism bad. i boost cats of mastodon.

profile picture alt text: a photo of me in a floral shirt, kinda gay

pronounsthey/them
researchqueer game studies, indie media
Yay, Mama Grace is adopted! 🎉😺 #cats #CatsOfMastodon
Sleepy time 🥰🦁😺🐱🧡 #cats #catsofmastodon
Every academic should be able to write code, write a book, engage in critical theory, design an experiment, talk for 5 minutes, talk for an hour, do education research, chair a committee, take orders from a committee, know physics, know history, know linguistics, appreciate literature, talk students down from doing stupid stuff, run a budget, use Word, use LaTeX, use a shared drive, build a website, coordinate a 25-man-deep phalanx, run a book seminar, run a lab. Specialisation is for insects.
My latest publication, part of the the "What is cultural studies?" series in the International Journal of Cultural Studies, is now online: "Video games as cultural studies other" (note: requires library access to the journal): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779241295771
Haven’t checked in here for a bit. How are we doing?
Last semester was possibly the busiest in my life. I learned a lot. Negative things aside, a lot about myself, my ethics and my politics. The plan for Spring 2025 is to focus more narrowly on academia and get that one article submitted to a journal.

Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities

#ObliqueStrategies

A huge thank you to organisers, session chairs and other presenters for all the efforts that are making it possible to participate in #AoIR2024 remotely. Choosing between the 3 remote parallel sessions is so difficult, can't imagine what I would be going through if I was actually in Sheffield 🤯 Seriously though this kind of accessibility makes a difference especially to scholars in the global south. Thanks so much.
fun things about living in the US and watching primarily american youtube. even though i was taught standard british english, over a few years i got used to american spelling and word choices without much conscious effort. i think the most i actively did was switch my spellcheck to US, so it taught me to type “realize” instead of “realise”