https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7518-2430
Asian American Studies, Esports, Hallyu Studies, Platform Studies, Postcolonialism, Transnationality, Media Studies, Globalization
Matthew Jungsuk Howard is a PhD student in Communication, Rhetoric, & Digital Media at North Carolina State University. Matt's research engages the partial, fractured, and plural racializations and subjectivations of Korean/Americans through leisure practices. His current work explores the platformization of cultural production's mediating effects on racialized imaginaries of Koreanness and their links to Korean/Americanness.
2022 journal article
Highway to the Golden Zone(fire)
Journal of Games Criticism, 5(Bonus Issue A). http://gamescriticism.org/articles/howard-5-a
2019 conference paper
Going Public: Writing Center Outreach and the Battle Against Justifying Inequality
South Central Writing Center Association Conference.
2019 conference paper
The Language of ‘Bronzeness’: The League of Legends Community’s Aristocracy of Rank
PCA/ACA National Conference.
2018 conference paper
Anything but Commonplace: Usernames as Cultural Carriers in League of Legends Subculture
PCA/ACA National Conference.
2018 thesis
Esport: Professional League of Legends as Cultural History
https://uh-ir.tdl.org/handle/10657/3298
2018 conference paper
Ouvriers de l’Ordinateur: Work, Suffering, and Sport Heroism in Western Esports
UCI Esports Conference.
Updated: April 21st, 2020 12:29
2019 - present
2014 - 2018
2009 - 2013