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
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 continue to work on various projects related to communication, technology and society. I’m currently conducting research on the US security industry and their branding and marketing practices. You can read more about that project as it gets underway here. Phil Boyle is a visiting scholar from Canada helping me with that project. You can read more about his work here (the link is for a research center I founded at Temple University , currently under construction and will have more information soon). I’m also conducting some research on Web 2.0 and social movement organizations. Carla Ilten from the Technical University of Berlin is a visiting scholar working with me on that project. You can read more about her here. Lastly, Tarleton Gillespie (from Cornell University) and I recently received funding from the National Science Foundation for a new project on cultural production in the digital age. We have some great collaborators from all over the world joining us for that project and are organizing some workshops too. More on that as soon as the website for that project goes live. I also continue my work on video games and I’m hoping to run a study abroad program in Montreal focusing on the video game industry there.