Network Investigator: Bart Simon

Contact Information

• Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia, Montreal
• 514-276-7941
• mailto:[email protected]
• http://www.tag.hexagram.ca
• http://socianth.concordia.ca/facultyandstaff/alphabeticalfacultyindex/index.php

GRAND Projects

• Play and Performance in Game-Based Interfaces
• Digital Labour
• Developing Methods for Evaluation of Virtual Worlds
• Privacy and Security

Biography

Bart Simon is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Research Initiative in Technoculture, Art and Games (TAG) at Concordia University. His research focuses on the nature of digital gameplay, game cultures and user experience. He has worked extensively in the field of game studies and digital culture for the last seven years. He is a founding member of the international Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and the Canadian Game Studies Association (CGSA), he has been the review chair for the culture stream for the last two DiGRA conferences (2007 and 2009) and sits on the editorial boards of the international journals; "Games and Culture" and "Game Studies".

Bart has also established strong relationships with Montreal area game designers and has doctoral students working as researchers and consultants with Electronic Arts, Montreal. He recently completed two 3 year studies funded by SSHRC and FQRSC of the social organization of play in multiplayer online games and LAN parties and he is currently PI on a new SSHRC funded study on gestural games with partners at SFU and Bristol University, UK.

More broadly, Bart also teaches and conducts research in the areas of surveillance and information technology, science and technology studies, digital culture and material culture and new media.