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Darshana Jayemanne is a Reader in Digital Cultures at Abertay University’s Department of Games and Arts. Her research focuses on performativity in digital spaces, youth cultures, and internet studies. She authored Performativity in Art, Literature and Videogames (2017), exploring media studies approaches to digital performance. Jayemanne serves as Co-Investigator for the CoSTAR National Laboratory and the EU-funded GAME-ER project. She advises initiatives like Boston Children’s Hospital’s digital civility workshops, OFCOM’s media advisory group, and the UK Information Commissioner’s Age-Appropriate Design Roundtable. Her work addresses UN SDGs related to education, equality, and sustainable communities.
Her research spans gaming psychology, digital ethics, and narrative design, with notable contributions to loot box regulation and children’s digital rights. She supervises 4 PhD and 2 MPhil students, and examines UCL’s Media Arts MA program. Collaborations include projects on climate change representation in games and cultural heritage ethics.
Recent articles highlight topics like postdigital play theory, temporal dynamics in Final Fantasy remakes, and cybernetic irony in racial humor. Her datasets, such as Playing Herstories, explore games’ role in women’s health narratives. Jayemanne’s work bridges academic rigor with policy advocacy, shaping global discussions on digital media’s societal impact.
