Nina Huntemann

Bio: Nina B. Huntemann, Ph.D. is an associate professor of media at Suffolk University in the Department of Communication and Journalism. Her research focuses on new media technologies, particular video and computer games, and incorporates feminist, critical cultural studies and political economy perspectives. She co-edited with Matthew Thomas Payne the anthology Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games (Routledge, 2010). She produced and directed the educational video, Game Over: Gender, Race and Violence in Video Games (2000), distributed by the Media Education Foundation, and has published several works on the image of women in video games, labor in the video game industry, the role of blogging in academia, and women’s use of the Internet for social change.