Scott DeJong
@scottdejong.bsky.social
Making and studying games about disinformation.
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Fulbright scholar.
PhD candidate, Concordia University. FRQSC scholar.
scottbdejong.ca
Hanging out at #SeriousPlay25 with my new teammates. We called ourselves Power Strangers and will save the world.
Note by doing this we are set up to maybe win things! Yay
Note by doing this we are set up to maybe win things! Yay
August 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hanging out at #SeriousPlay25 with my new teammates. We called ourselves Power Strangers and will save the world.
Note by doing this we are set up to maybe win things! Yay
Note by doing this we are set up to maybe win things! Yay
Are you interested in serious games? Join this free, hybrid conference happening June 6th!
We got over 15 games, 8 speakers, and live designer interviews!!
www.badgamearcade.ca/2025-pre-con...
#seriousgames #educationalgames #edgames
We got over 15 games, 8 speakers, and live designer interviews!!
www.badgamearcade.ca/2025-pre-con...
#seriousgames #educationalgames #edgames
2025 Pre Conference | Serious Game Arcade
www.badgamearcade.ca
May 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Are you interested in serious games? Join this free, hybrid conference happening June 6th!
We got over 15 games, 8 speakers, and live designer interviews!!
www.badgamearcade.ca/2025-pre-con...
#seriousgames #educationalgames #edgames
We got over 15 games, 8 speakers, and live designer interviews!!
www.badgamearcade.ca/2025-pre-con...
#seriousgames #educationalgames #edgames
Deadline to apply is soon!
Are you interested in Serious games? Educational Games? Learning Games? Or any other term around them. Come to the free, hybrid pre-conference event: Serious Game Arcade!
In Montreal before the @cgsaacej.bsky.social conference, Come share, talk, and play.
Full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
In Montreal before the @cgsaacej.bsky.social conference, Come share, talk, and play.
Full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
CGSA Pre-Conference: Serious Game Arcade 2025 Call for Participation
CGSA Pre-Conference: Serious Game Arcade 2025 Call for Participation Location: Concordia University 4th Space, Montreal Date: June 6, 2025 Time: 11 am - 5pm When you ask someone who plays games abou...
docs.google.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Deadline to apply is soon!
Are you interested in Serious games? Educational Games? Learning Games? Or any other term around them. Come to the free, hybrid pre-conference event: Serious Game Arcade!
In Montreal before the @cgsaacej.bsky.social conference, Come share, talk, and play.
Full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
In Montreal before the @cgsaacej.bsky.social conference, Come share, talk, and play.
Full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
CGSA Pre-Conference: Serious Game Arcade 2025 Call for Participation
CGSA Pre-Conference: Serious Game Arcade 2025 Call for Participation Location: Concordia University 4th Space, Montreal Date: June 6, 2025 Time: 11 am - 5pm When you ask someone who plays games abou...
docs.google.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Are you interested in Serious games? Educational Games? Learning Games? Or any other term around them. Come to the free, hybrid pre-conference event: Serious Game Arcade!
In Montreal before the @cgsaacej.bsky.social conference, Come share, talk, and play.
Full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
In Montreal before the @cgsaacej.bsky.social conference, Come share, talk, and play.
Full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Reposted by Scott DeJong
Starting off the year with a new @theconversation.com piece with @scottdejong.bsky.social!
We recap some of our industry research on gig economy #gamedev, using Fiverr as a case study. Global wage inequities, digital mediation, and devalued creative labour all undergird the platform's operations.
We recap some of our industry research on gig economy #gamedev, using Fiverr as a case study. Global wage inequities, digital mediation, and devalued creative labour all undergird the platform's operations.
How gig platforms like Fiverr are reshaping the video game development industry
Fiverr’s game development ecosystem serves as a microcosm of larger concerns about labour practices in the gaming sector.
theconversation.com
January 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Starting off the year with a new @theconversation.com piece with @scottdejong.bsky.social!
We recap some of our industry research on gig economy #gamedev, using Fiverr as a case study. Global wage inequities, digital mediation, and devalued creative labour all undergird the platform's operations.
We recap some of our industry research on gig economy #gamedev, using Fiverr as a case study. Global wage inequities, digital mediation, and devalued creative labour all undergird the platform's operations.
In 2022 @michaeliantorno.com and I asked what game design was like in the gig economy. We looked at the fantasy of the 5 dollar videogame and the makers behind them.
Happy to share this conversation piece on our work.
theconversation.com/how-gig-plat...
Happy to share this conversation piece on our work.
theconversation.com/how-gig-plat...
How gig platforms like Fiverr are reshaping the video game development industry
Fiverr’s game development ecosystem serves as a microcosm of larger concerns about labour practices in the gaming sector.
theconversation.com
January 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In 2022 @michaeliantorno.com and I asked what game design was like in the gig economy. We looked at the fantasy of the 5 dollar videogame and the makers behind them.
Happy to share this conversation piece on our work.
theconversation.com/how-gig-plat...
Happy to share this conversation piece on our work.
theconversation.com/how-gig-plat...
Reposted by Scott DeJong
Next, @scottdejong.bsky.social & @michaeliantorno.com provide a fascinating account of precarious freelance game developers selling their services on Fiverr in "Game Design for a Fiverr: Precarity, Regionality, and Platform-Mediation in the Gig Economy"
journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...
journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...
December 17, 2024 at 1:16 AM
Next, @scottdejong.bsky.social & @michaeliantorno.com provide a fascinating account of precarious freelance game developers selling their services on Fiverr in "Game Design for a Fiverr: Precarity, Regionality, and Platform-Mediation in the Gig Economy"
journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...
journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...
Reposted by Scott DeJong
Publication day! @scottdejong.bsky.social and I wrote an article for Media Industries about game design practices on Fiverr.💸🎮
It's part of their "Local Digital Game Production" issue edited by Chris Young, Emilie Reed, and @brkeogh.bsky.social.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...
It's part of their "Local Digital Game Production" issue edited by Chris Young, Emilie Reed, and @brkeogh.bsky.social.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...
December 16, 2024 at 7:30 PM
Publication day! @scottdejong.bsky.social and I wrote an article for Media Industries about game design practices on Fiverr.💸🎮
It's part of their "Local Digital Game Production" issue edited by Chris Young, Emilie Reed, and @brkeogh.bsky.social.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...
It's part of their "Local Digital Game Production" issue edited by Chris Young, Emilie Reed, and @brkeogh.bsky.social.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...
Reposted by Scott DeJong
Come see me (and all the awesome Concordia folks) next summer!
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🎆ANNOUNCEMENT!🎆
The 2025 CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference will be a hybrid event co-hosted by the Technoculture, Art and Games Lab (TAG) at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 7–10. This year’s theme is “Breaks.”
Deadline for submission is Friday 13 December 2024 11:59pm ET
🎆ANNOUNCEMENT!🎆
The 2025 CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference will be a hybrid event co-hosted by the Technoculture, Art and Games Lab (TAG) at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 7–10. This year’s theme is “Breaks.”
Deadline for submission is Friday 13 December 2024 11:59pm ET
a cartoon dog is standing next to a red cartoon character in a video game .
ALT: a cartoon dog is standing next to a red cartoon character in a video game .
media.tenor.com
November 12, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Come see me (and all the awesome Concordia folks) next summer!
Reposted by Scott DeJong
Bluesky,
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
November 11, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Bluesky,
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
I am hanging out at CHI play 2023 talking about educational games.
I might have caused some tension when I quoted Jaako Stenros who told me, "Fun is overrated". Seriously though, fun is a crutch to effective design (imo).
I might have caused some tension when I quoted Jaako Stenros who told me, "Fun is overrated". Seriously though, fun is a crutch to effective design (imo).
October 11, 2023 at 7:17 PM
I am hanging out at CHI play 2023 talking about educational games.
I might have caused some tension when I quoted Jaako Stenros who told me, "Fun is overrated". Seriously though, fun is a crutch to effective design (imo).
I might have caused some tension when I quoted Jaako Stenros who told me, "Fun is overrated". Seriously though, fun is a crutch to effective design (imo).
🎮Free Event for anyone interested in Disinformation and Games!🎮
Next Friday, I will be running a workshop going over my research on designing, running, and making a disinfo boardgame (Lizards and Lies)!
Feel free to join - aodnetwork.ca/monthly-camp...
Next Friday, I will be running a workshop going over my research on designing, running, and making a disinfo boardgame (Lizards and Lies)!
Feel free to join - aodnetwork.ca/monthly-camp...
September 8, 2023 at 1:36 PM
🎮Free Event for anyone interested in Disinformation and Games!🎮
Next Friday, I will be running a workshop going over my research on designing, running, and making a disinfo boardgame (Lizards and Lies)!
Feel free to join - aodnetwork.ca/monthly-camp...
Next Friday, I will be running a workshop going over my research on designing, running, and making a disinfo boardgame (Lizards and Lies)!
Feel free to join - aodnetwork.ca/monthly-camp...
I'm not surprised, just sad.
But also the fact that videogame streamers/tubers are becoming part of mainstream political commentary and discussions on intersectionality reminds me how critical game studies is.
www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...
But also the fact that videogame streamers/tubers are becoming part of mainstream political commentary and discussions on intersectionality reminds me how critical game studies is.
www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...
September 7, 2023 at 12:13 AM
I'm not surprised, just sad.
But also the fact that videogame streamers/tubers are becoming part of mainstream political commentary and discussions on intersectionality reminds me how critical game studies is.
www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...
But also the fact that videogame streamers/tubers are becoming part of mainstream political commentary and discussions on intersectionality reminds me how critical game studies is.
www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...
Anyone else got a word that they like so much they use all the time in their writing?
For me lately, it has been "obfuscate". Such a fancy way to hide things. 🥷☁️
For me lately, it has been "obfuscate". Such a fancy way to hide things. 🥷☁️
August 30, 2023 at 1:26 PM
Anyone else got a word that they like so much they use all the time in their writing?
For me lately, it has been "obfuscate". Such a fancy way to hide things. 🥷☁️
For me lately, it has been "obfuscate". Such a fancy way to hide things. 🥷☁️
So Sea of Stars 🌟.... I should play it right?!? It looks so pretty!
August 29, 2023 at 4:37 PM
So Sea of Stars 🌟.... I should play it right?!? It looks so pretty!
I feel like its really struggling with its identity.
July 27, 2023 at 5:03 PM
I feel like its really struggling with its identity.
Late night panel at #GenerationAnalog2023!
Talking with @marclaje.bsky.social about Homebrew and table top roleplaying games :D
Talking with @marclaje.bsky.social about Homebrew and table top roleplaying games :D
July 27, 2023 at 12:04 AM
Late night panel at #GenerationAnalog2023!
Talking with @marclaje.bsky.social about Homebrew and table top roleplaying games :D
Talking with @marclaje.bsky.social about Homebrew and table top roleplaying games :D
Who on earth thinks that an X is cooler than a bird?
July 24, 2023 at 8:12 PM
Who on earth thinks that an X is cooler than a bird?
🦎Happy to say that as of today, my boardgame about disinformation is now available in French!
Pour mes amis français, c'est ici - https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/lizards-and-lies-french-
Pour mes amis français, c'est ici - https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/lizards-and-lies-french-
July 9, 2023 at 2:57 PM
🦎Happy to say that as of today, my boardgame about disinformation is now available in French!
Pour mes amis français, c'est ici - https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/lizards-and-lies-french-
Pour mes amis français, c'est ici - https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/lizards-and-lies-french-
So, I'll be taking vacation soon. This time, I'm staying home and playing games. Any suggestions of must play summer games?
Board, video, anything in between. Just looking for something fresh.
Board, video, anything in between. Just looking for something fresh.
July 5, 2023 at 3:56 PM
So, I'll be taking vacation soon. This time, I'm staying home and playing games. Any suggestions of must play summer games?
Board, video, anything in between. Just looking for something fresh.
Board, video, anything in between. Just looking for something fresh.
👋Hi! I'm Scott!
I make games and study games about disinformation. I love a good meme, puffins, baking, and getting existential about play.
Game - https://www.lizardsandlies.ca/
Website/blog - https://www.scottbdejong.ca/
Recent Papers - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9puMhRAAAAAJ&hl=en
I make games and study games about disinformation. I love a good meme, puffins, baking, and getting existential about play.
Game - https://www.lizardsandlies.ca/
Website/blog - https://www.scottbdejong.ca/
Recent Papers - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9puMhRAAAAAJ&hl=en
HOME | Scottdejong
www.scottbdejong.ca
July 4, 2023 at 2:36 PM
👋Hi! I'm Scott!
I make games and study games about disinformation. I love a good meme, puffins, baking, and getting existential about play.
Game - https://www.lizardsandlies.ca/
Website/blog - https://www.scottbdejong.ca/
Recent Papers - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9puMhRAAAAAJ&hl=en
I make games and study games about disinformation. I love a good meme, puffins, baking, and getting existential about play.
Game - https://www.lizardsandlies.ca/
Website/blog - https://www.scottbdejong.ca/
Recent Papers - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9puMhRAAAAAJ&hl=en