Joshua Jackson

Joshua Jackson is a Lecturer in Computer Games Modelling and Animation at the College of Science and Engineering. His research critically examines intersections between gaming labor practices, educational technology, and capitalist structures. Key themes include labor exploitation in videogame production, gamified pedagogy's societal impacts, and the socius' role in shaping creative industries.

His work analyzes how passion-based labor traps emerge within game development ecosystems, interrogating how platform capitalism and vectoralist control mechanisms permeate both industry and education sectors. Recent studies focus on the ethical implications of edtech implementation in K-12 systems and the hidden erasures within games-based learning frameworks.

Notable outputs include analyses of autopoietic subjectivation processes in game production and critiques of how capitalist structures shape creative labor dynamics. His publications demonstrate a multidisciplinary approach spanning media studies, critical theory, and labor economics.