Nick Taylor

Nicholas Taylor is an Associate Professor specializing in critical and ethnographic studies of professionalized leisure, media practices, and gaming communities. With a focus on gender and new media industries, he has published in major journals and co-edited Masculinities in Play and LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media. Taylor is currently a research fellow at Åbo Akademi University in Finland.

Keywords: Leisure Studies, Media Practices, Gaming Communities, Masculinities, Digital Media, Ethnographic Research