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Sara M. Grimes
Sara M. Grimes is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto, where she teaches and researches primarily in the areas of children's new media and literature. She has degrees in Communication from Simon Fraser University (Ph.D., MA) and the University of Ottawa (BA Hons). Her research interests are in children's media culture, play studies and critical theories of technology, with a special focus on digital games. Her published work includes explorations of children's virtual worlds and online communities, examinations of online advertising and cross-media promotions targeting children, discussions of the legal and ethical dimensions of virtual worlds and online economic processes and a co-authored analysis (with Neil Narine) of discursive representations of the child gamer within popular film and advertising.
She has also collaborated with Andrew Feenberg, adapting his theory of instrumentalization to construct a framework for the discussion of games as systems of social rationalization.