Kauweloa, Ph.D.
@kauweloa
The University of Hawaii 🌈 -- interdisciplinary Studies/Island Researcher-- Digital Cultures, Video Games(esports),Games Infrastructures, and Disability #academicsky #indigenousresearch #gamestudies #STS #Disability
TIL Swedes have a whole-ass culture for slammed 64 Impalas. I think I am going to love Sweden too. Getting ready for summer.
I actually remember the first meme I laid eyes on - circa 2009 in South Korea, a colleague created the meme via photoshop of him and his hockey friends. I remember thinking two things: wtf is he doing, and why is everyone in the office going bat shit crazy over this ugly "picture."
In a world of chaos and uncertainty, trying to bring joy to our kids in Hawaii any way possible. Big thank you to #SouthWestAirlines for flying out all of our game development guests to UH. Can't wait to have veterans in game development world, some going back nearly 30+ years.
Enjoying my time in #Norway (Grimstad). Always the speculative culturalist/ environmentalist, I have a few questions that I find unique about the country. Thousands of trees, everywhere, but on a 3-hour bus ride from Oslo to Grimstad, the roads were litterally clean of any leaves.
Returned from session in a graduate methods course. I discussed a unexplored part of ethnography in #esports - interviews as therapeutic session for players, and the deeply contested meanings of "balance" for students/players, based on my dissertation work. Fantastic discussion. Thanks to Dr. Choe.