Near and Middle Eastern Studies
October 30, 2020
Student profile: Melinda Cohoon – Exploring the Political Worlds of Online Videogaming, between Iranian Gamers and the 2020 US Election
Melinda Cohoon, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Washington’s NMES program, is setting out on a year of dissertation field research, funded by an SSRC Social Data Research and Dissertation fellowship. Her methods have much in common with traditional ethnography, drawing heavily on interviews and participant observation, but her field site is atypical. She…