Mark Chen

http://markdangerchen.net/
markchen [at] u.washington.edu
Graduate Student
College of Education

Mark Chen is a PhD Candidate at the University of Washington-Seattle, College of Education, looking at groups of gamers in the massively multiplayer online game, World of Warcraft (WoW). He uses ethnographic methods emphasizing personal narrative and experience as a lifelong digital and table-top gamer. With his work in WoW, he focuses on group learning and teamwork, communication, and expertise development from a distributed cognition and actor-network theory frame. Prior to doctoral work, Mark was the webmaster and a web game developer for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland, OR. He holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Reed College and grew up in the Bay Area as a child of the 80s.