Krista-Lee M. Malone

About

I am a PhD candidate (ABD) with a concentration in Cultural Anthropology at the Universty of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I am interested in social and institutional organization, virtual worlds, computer culture, science and technology studies, educational video games, Taiwan and East Asia. My past work includes studies of high-end raiding guilds in World of Warcraft. My most recent work examines a start-up educational game company in Taipei and the video game related stigma within Taiwanese culture. In addition to games I also have interests in other subcultures such as cosplay, manga, steam punk, and anything else that involves having fun and subverting mainstream forms of play.