Hector Postigo
Associate Professor
Temple University
Dept. of Broadcasting, Telecommunications & Mass Media
School of Communication and Theatre
Annenberg Hall
2020 North 13th Street
email: hector [dot] postigo [at] temple [dot] edu
Blog: I Shot The Cyborg
My research focuses on new digital media. Specifically, I study video game culture and online environments and I’m pursuing two lines of research. The first line of research focuses on value production on the internet. I was one of the first researcher to study video game fan communities that make valuable modifications to popular PC games (modders). I recently gave a talk on this topic at the Center for Advanced Study at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The second line of research is a study of social movements and their use of hacking and social networking technologies. My work on social movements is funded in part by the National Science Foundation. Recently I’ve also started a new project on privacy and surveillance. This is a multi-national collaboration funded by the European Commission. You can read more about that project as it gets underway here. I will be hiring a post-doc to help with this project. See the job description here.