Oscar Moralde
@oscarmoralde.com
Visiting Lecturer in Media Studies, Washington University in St. Louis. I study embodied aesthetics and ideology in video games and digital media. Steam tells me I have 2,710 hours played in Time Clickers
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Oscar Moralde
@oscarmoralde.com
· Apr 3
Wait Wait… Don’t Play Me: The Clicker Game Genre and Configuring Everyday Temporalities
www.invisibleculturejournal.com
Hello! I teach and research embodied video game aesthetics and ideology, particularly in looking at how games fit into the timetables of everyday life, as in my study of the idle/clicker game genre: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/wait-wai...
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The Journal of Games Criticism has published a new issue!! Come and read 6 great new open-access game studies articles!
gamescriticism.org/issue-6-1/
#gamestudies
gamescriticism.org/issue-6-1/
#gamestudies
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The Journal of Games Criticism has published a new issue!! Come and read 6 great new open-access game studies articles!
gamescriticism.org/issue-6-1/
#gamestudies
gamescriticism.org/issue-6-1/
#gamestudies
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
September 4, 2025 at 4:59 AM
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Tackling two new course preps after spending most of the past month making a cross-country move which was also the first time moving in 15 years
August 25, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Tackling two new course preps after spending most of the past month making a cross-country move which was also the first time moving in 15 years
In the 15 years I have lived near the LA County Museum of Art, I have been there exactly once lol (I saw THE CLOCK), maybe I should go back while I still have time
August 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
In the 15 years I have lived near the LA County Museum of Art, I have been there exactly once lol (I saw THE CLOCK), maybe I should go back while I still have time
Major update -- I will be joining the Film and Media Studies faculty at Washington University in St. Louis as a Visiting Lecturer! Looking forward to helping them develop their digital media studies curriculum. Happy to connect with folks in the Midwest! fms.wustl.edu/people/oscar...
Oscar Moralde
fms.wustl.edu
August 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Major update -- I will be joining the Film and Media Studies faculty at Washington University in St. Louis as a Visiting Lecturer! Looking forward to helping them develop their digital media studies curriculum. Happy to connect with folks in the Midwest! fms.wustl.edu/people/oscar...
I read this line in Stuart Hall's memoir FAMILIAR STRANGER and had to stop and stare out the window:
"I had by then given up the project to become a creative writer and I didn't know enough music or play well enough to become a musician. Out of such 'failures' are critics and theorists made!" (132)
"I had by then given up the project to become a creative writer and I didn't know enough music or play well enough to become a musician. Out of such 'failures' are critics and theorists made!" (132)
July 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I read this line in Stuart Hall's memoir FAMILIAR STRANGER and had to stop and stare out the window:
"I had by then given up the project to become a creative writer and I didn't know enough music or play well enough to become a musician. Out of such 'failures' are critics and theorists made!" (132)
"I had by then given up the project to become a creative writer and I didn't know enough music or play well enough to become a musician. Out of such 'failures' are critics and theorists made!" (132)
Looking forward to chairing this #SCMS25 panel on Video Games and Advertising later today! 5:15 to 7:00 (and then the SIG social is right after...)
April 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Looking forward to chairing this #SCMS25 panel on Video Games and Advertising later today! 5:15 to 7:00 (and then the SIG social is right after...)
Hello! I teach and research embodied video game aesthetics and ideology, particularly in looking at how games fit into the timetables of everyday life, as in my study of the idle/clicker game genre: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/wait-wai...
Wait Wait… Don’t Play Me: The Clicker Game Genre and Configuring Everyday Temporalities
www.invisibleculturejournal.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Hello! I teach and research embodied video game aesthetics and ideology, particularly in looking at how games fit into the timetables of everyday life, as in my study of the idle/clicker game genre: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/wait-wai...
I have basically been radio silent on social media since 2020ish for The Reasons You Might Guess. However, at this point necessity is the mother of posting, so here we go...
April 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I have basically been radio silent on social media since 2020ish for The Reasons You Might Guess. However, at this point necessity is the mother of posting, so here we go...
Reposted by Oscar Moralde
