Intimate Worlds - Reading For Intimate Affects In Contemporary Video Games

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== Kaelan Doyle-Myerscough: "Intimate Worlds: Reading for Intimate Affects in Contemporary Video Games" == Leveraging affect theory and video game studies, I examine Overwatch, The Last Guardian and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for intimate affects. I read for intimacy as a way to understand how sensations of vulnerability, the loss of control and precarity can become pleasurable in contemporary video games. == Sara Rafsky: "The Print that Binds: Local Media, Civic Life and the Public Sphere" == == Aziria Rodríguez Arce: "Seizing the Memes of Production: Political Memes in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora" == == Mariel García Montes: "Youth and Privacy in the Americas" == How do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This thesis look at ways that educators and allies work to think about, critique, engage with, and circulate ideas about youth online privacy.