Ben Egliston

I’m an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. I research and write about the political economy of digital media and technology.

I currently work across two Australian Research Council-funded projects. First, I lead a research project about the impacts of new business models in the videogame industry (funded by an Australian Research Council DECRA). This project assesses the implications of service-based monetisation for how games are designed, consumed, and regulated. Second, with colleagues from the University of Sydney, I am a Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery Project about the ethical and social impacts of mixed reality and embodied computing.

I’m the (co)author of four books: Fantasies of Virtual Reality: Untangling Fiction, Fact, and Threat (MIT Press), Cryptogaming: Blockchain and the Financialization of Videogames (Palgrave Macmillan), Governing Social Virtual Reality (Palgrave Macmillan), and The Limits of Immersion: Disability and Virtual Reality (Bristol University Press).