Ziran Zhao (Brandon)

Hi Professor, wanna join🍻

20.07.2025 11:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Navigating through the Tempest: Climate Change Simulations in Action Role-Playing Games This study employs critical technocultural discourse analysis on 14 Action Role-Playing Games (ARPGs) to explore their climate simulation. Drawing on the theoretical framework of the Gaming Spatial...

New publication 🎉 at Environmental Communication with @xueyancao.bsky.social & Shan Lv:

We conducted a CTDA analysis of open-world games released this year to explore how they simulate climate change

Plz find more👇
doi.org/10.1080/1752...

08.07.2025 02:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

This article by Ziran Zhao and Anthony YH Fung explores how players in Sky: Children of the Light engage in in-game transactions shaped by social bonds and digital hierarchies.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Credit: Sky: Children of the Light on Steam (store.steampowered.com/app/2325290/...)

03.07.2025 05:07 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

The best conference experiences at @arinus.bsky.social 🥰with the most amazing academic & administrative team

28.06.2025 04:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Attending workshop held by @monashuniversity.bsky.social Faculty of Arts & @fazdaz.bsky.social at Prato, Italy. Enjoying the tranquility of the small town & lasagna🍹

06.06.2025 17:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Passing the torch of candlelight: The flux of players’ gaming capital in the game platform Sky: Children of the Light - Ziran Zhao, Anthony YH Fung, 2025 This study uses the concept of gaming capital to examine transaction practices within the game platform Sky: Children of the Light. Through digital ethnography,...

New publication in @mediaintaus.bsky.social
with my host supervisor Prof. Anthony Fung.
We examined transaction practices within the game platform Sky using digital ethnography. For more👇 doi.org/10.1177/1329...

06.06.2025 05:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

11.12.2024 02:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A “writing retreat” on the island where my supervisor did her PhD fieldwork😄

11.12.2024 02:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0