All Stories

  1. Past, Present, Future of Meaningful Play: Building and Bridging Communities Through Games Research and Design

    Article • October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Amanda Cote

  2. Labor Games, Citizenship, and Control: Book Review Essay of Weststar & Legault and Wu LegaultM.WeststarJ. (2024). Not All Fun and Games: Videogame Labour, Project-based Workplaces, and the New Citizenship at Work. Montreal: Concordia University Pre...

    Article • Work and Occupations, April 2025, SAGE Publications

    Dr Amanda Cote

  3. Competitive Collegiate Esports Programs

    Article • August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amanda Cote, Dr Seth E. Jenny

  4. Esports Journalism

    Article • August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amanda Cote

  5. Introduction to Critical Concerns in Esports

    Article • August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amanda Cote

  6. Introduction to Esports Media and Communication

    Article • August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amanda Cote

  7. Introduction to Global Esports Cultures

    Article • August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amanda Cote, Dr Seth E. Jenny

  8. Key Terms Definitions

    Article • August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amanda Cote, Dr Seth E. Jenny

  9. Qualitative Esports Research Methodology

    Article • August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amanda Cote

  10. Routledge Handbook of Esports

    Article • August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amanda Cote, Dr Seth E. Jenny

  11. The Future of Esports

    Article • August 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amanda Cote, Dr Seth E. Jenny

  12. In/visible hurdles: US collegiate esports participants’ perceived barriers to play and involvement

    Article • New Media & Society, May 2024, SAGE Publications

    Dr Amanda Cote

  13. Inevitable or Exploitative? A Case Study of Consumers’ Divergent Attitudes towards Video Game Crunch

    Article • Media Industries, July 2023, University of Michigan Library

    Dr Amanda Cote

  14. Taking Care of Toxicity: Challenges and Strategies for Inclusion in U.S. Collegiate Esports Programs

    Article • Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports, January 2023, Human Kinetics

    Dr Amanda Cote

  15. Philanthropic, prosocial players: How game-related charity events motivate unlikely donors

    Article • New Media & Society, October 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Amanda Cote

  16. The COVID Season: U.S. Collegiate Esports Programs’ Material Challenges and Opportunities During the 2020–21 Pandemic

    Article • Games and Culture, April 2022, SAGE Publications

    Dr Amanda Cote

  17. “Starting from scratch to looking really clean and professional”: how students’ productive labor legitimizes collegiate esports

    Article • Critical Studies in Media Communication, February 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amanda Cote

  18. The cruel optimism of “good crunch”: How game industry discourses perpetuate unsustainable labor practices

    Article • New Media & Society, May 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Amanda Cote

  19. The interplay of parenting style and family rules about video games on subsequent fighting behavior

    Article • Aggressive Behavior, October 2020, Wiley

    Dr Amanda Cote

  20. Casual Resistance: A Longitudinal Case Study of Video Gaming’s Gendered Construction and Related Audience Perceptions

    Article • Journal of Communication, August 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Amanda Cote

  21. ‘Weekends became something other people did’: Understanding and intervening in the habitus of video game crunch

    Article • Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, March 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Amanda Cote

  22. Book Review: Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender, and the Convergence Culture Industry

    Article • Convergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, July 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Amanda Cote

  23. Book review of "Ready Player Two: Women Gamers and Designed Identity" (Chess, 2017)

    Article • Feminist Media Studies, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amanda Cote

  24. Gamers, gender, and cruel optimism: the limits of social identity constructs in The Guild

    Article • Feminist Media Studies, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Amanda Cote

  25. “I Can Defend Myself”

    Article • Games and Culture, March 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Amanda Cote

  26. Writing “Gamers”

    Article • Games and Culture, December 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Amanda Cote