A brief introduction to the dissertation makes sense. This dissertation project was done as part of a more than four-year ethnographic foray into the worlds of videogame developers in the United States and India. The majority of my fieldwork occurred in upstate New York, though I ranged as far as Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai India. By the time I was writing my dissertation, however, developers that I had met in Chennai were working in upstate New York. This project was difficult, because as I've mentioned to several people, when doing this kind of research, you really do find yourself doing "ethnography of a moving target."

I continue to find myself straddling the lines between disciplines as well as the lines between industry and academia. You can find the Creative Common's PDF linked after the break.