publications

peer-reviewed book

Nguyen, Josef. The Digital Is Kid Stuff: Making Creative Laborers for a Precarious Economy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, Dec 2021)

• Awarded the 2022 First Book Prize from the Cultural Studies Association
• Reviewed in Journal of Children and Media, Journal of Media Literacy Education, and Critical Studies in Mass Communication
• Interviewed and in conversation on University of Minnesota Press Podcast Episode 36 and Imagine Otherwise Podcast Episode 145
• Featured on Game Studies Study Buddies Podcast Episode 64

peer-reviewed articles and papers

Nguyen, Josef. “Scripting Consenting Fictions in Sex Technology Imaginaries.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 9, no. 1 (Spring 2023) (open access)

Nguyen, Josef. "Reconsidering Lost Opportunities for Diverse Representation." Special Issue: "American Game Studies." Guest eds. Patrick Jagoda and Jennifer Malkowski. American Literature 94, no. 1 (Mar 2022): 73-102

Nguyen, Josef. "Painful Games, Sporting Practices, and Enduring Masculinities." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 60, no. 5 (2020-2021): 197-216 (open access)

Nguyen, Josef, and Bo Ruberg. "Challenges of Designing Consent: Consent Mechanics in Video Games as Models for Interactive User Agency." CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Apr 2020): 1-13

• Honorable Mention for Best Paper Award (top 5%)

Nguyen, Josef. "How Makers and Preppers Converge in Premodern and Post-Apocalyptic Ruin." Lateral 7, no. 2 (Fall 2018) (open access)

Nguyen, Josef. "Digital Games about the Materiality of Digital Games." Special Issue: "Green Computer and Video Games." Guest eds. Alenda Chang and John Parham. Ecozon@ 8, no. 2 (Nov 2017): 18-38 (open access)

Nguyen, Josef. "Minecraft and the Building Blocks of Creative Individuality." Configurations 24, no. 4 (Dec 2016): 471–500

• Interviewed on JHU Press Blog

Nguyen, Josef. "Performing as Video Game Players in Let's Plays." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 22 (Sept 2016) (open access)

• Italian translation and reprint as "Esibirsi come Videogiocatori nei Let's Play" in Giochi Video: Streaming, Spettacolo, Performance. Eds. Matteo Bittanti and Enrico Gandolfi. Milan: Mimesis Edizioni (2018), 81-101

Nguyen, Josef. "Make Magazine and the Social Reproduction of DIY Science and Technology." Cultural Politics 12, no. 2 (July 2016): 233-252

edited special issue

Forthcoming: Phillips, Amanda, and Josef Nguyen (eds.). Special issue: "The Lara Croft 30th Anniversary Special Issue." Feminist Media Histories tentatively 11, no. 3 (Summer 2025)

• Call for papers (call has ended)

additional writing

Shaw, Adrienne, Alexandrina Agloro, Josef Nguyen, Amanda Phillips, and Bo Ruberg. "Feminist and Queer Game Studies." Oxford Bibliographies in Communication, Oxford University Press (2019)