Please note: While I am always happy to talk to potential graduate students, I will be on sabbatical from July 2025 to June 2026. My capacity for supervision and committees will be limited until I return.

Kelly Bergstrom is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and a Postdoctoral Fellow at York University’s Institute for Research on Digital Learning and a MITACS Postdoctoral Researcher at Big Viking Games.

Bergstrom’s research examines drop out and disengagement from digital cultures, with a focus on digital games and social media. She is co-editor of Internet Spaceships are Serious Business: An EVE Online Reader (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and her work has been published in journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Social Media + Society.

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Please note: While I am always happy to talk to potential graduate students, I will be on sabbatical from July 2025 to June 2026. My capacity for supervision and committees will be limited until I return.

Kelly Bergstrom is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and a Postdoctoral Fellow at York University’s Institute for Research on Digital Learning and a MITACS Postdoctoral Researcher at Big Viking Games.

Bergstrom’s research examines drop out and disengagement from digital cultures, with a focus on digital games and social media. She is co-editor of Internet Spaceships are Serious Business: An EVE Online Reader (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and her work has been published in journals such as Feminist Media Studies, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Social Media + Society.

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