• Recasting Twitch: Livestreaming, Platforms, and New Frontiers in Digital Journalism 

  Foxman, Maxwell; Harris, Brandon C.; Partin, William Clyde (Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group, 2024-04-05)

  Despite Twitch’s dominant position in Western livestreaming markets, institutional journalists rarely produce content on the platform. This paper investigates how journalistic practices, cultures, business models, and ...
• Lessons for Journalists from Virtual Worlds 

  Foxman, Maxwell (Columbia Journalism Review, 2022-10-06)

  In the darkest days of the covid-19 pandemic, as many people figured out how to work and live in isolation, they turned to various virtual worlds and spaces for comfort. From games like Animal Crossing to Zoom, the popularity ...
• Digital Death: The Failures, Struggles and Discourses of the Social Media Spectacle 

  Foxman, Maxwell (2012-10-18)

  Celebrities have always capitalized upon various media to give voice and substance to their own mute causes. From Live Aid to PBS fundraisers, they have used their public personae to support the downtrodden, sick and ...
• Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter Book Review 

  Foxman, Maxwell (2019)
• Brain-training Games: Play as a Tool for Cognitive Enhancement 

  Rahman, Waseq; Foxman, Maxwell (2020)
• Ramon Lobato, Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution 

  Foxman, Maxwell (2020)
• Out of the Cafe and into the Arena 

  Can, Onder; Foxman, Maxwell (ROMchip, 2021-07)
• RECASTING COLLEGIATE ESPORTS: INDEPENDENCE AND INTERDEPENDENCE OF UNIVERSITY TWITCH STREAMERS 

  Foxman, Maxwell; Cote, Amanda; Can, Onder; Harris, Brandon; Rahman, Waseq; Hansen, Jared; Fickle, Tara (2021-10-15)
• Beyond Genre: Classifying Virtual Reality Experiences 

  Foxman, Maxwell; Beyea, David; Leith, Alex P.; Ratan, Rabindra; Hua Chen, Vivian Hsueh; Klebig, Brian (IEEE, 2022-09)

  Because virtual reality (VR) shares common features with video games, consumer content is usually classified according to traditional game genres and standards. However, VR offers different experiences based on the medium’s ...
• Virtual reality and music's impact on psychological well-being 

  Foxman, Maxwell; Pimentel, Danny; Alexanian, Stephen (Frontier Media, 2022-08-11)

  Quality of life is bound to psychological well-being, which in turn is affected by the frequency and magnitude of negative mood states. To regulate mood states, humans often consume media such as music and movies, with ...
• Advertising in Schools 

  Foxman, Maxwell; Mateescu, Alexandra; Bulger, Monica (2016-09-07)
• Punctuated Play: Revealing the Roots of Gamification 

  Foxman, Maxwell (2020)

  Even at the apex of its hype cycle in the 2010s, game studies scholars and designers derided gamification. This article first explores why gamification inspired such vitriol. It finds the incursion of non-game corporations ...
• The Mainstreaming of US Games Journalism 

  Nieborg, David B.; Foxman, Maxwell (2016)
• Playing with Virtual Reality: Early Adopters of Commercial Immersive Technology 

  Foxman, Maxwell (First Monday, 2017-01)

  The crisis in the journalism industry, intensified with the popularization of the World Wide Web, warrants radical rethinking of the professional identity of journalists and their role in society. This paper first suggests ...
• Playing with Virtual Reality: Early Adopters of Commercial Immersive Technology 

  Foxman, Maxwell (Columbia University, 2018)
• Virtual reality genres: Comparing preferences in immersive experiences and games 

  Foxman, Maxwell; Leith, Alex P.; Beyea, David; Klebig, Brian; Ratan, Rabindra; Hua Chen, Vivian Hsueh (Association for Computing Machinery, 2020-11)

  Even though virtual reality (VR) shares features with video games, it offers a wider range of experiences. There is currently no cohesive classification for commercial VR offerings. As a first step to account for this ...
• Virtually Real, But Not Quite There: Social and Economic Barriers to Meeting Virtual Reality’s True Potential for Mental Health 

  Pimentel, Daniel; Foxman, Maxwell; Davis, Donna Z.; Markowitz, David M. (Frontiers Media, 2021-02-17)

  Strategies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, namely quarantine and social distancing protocols, have exposed a troubling paradox: mandated isolation meant to preserve well-being has inadvertently contributed to its ...
• Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Games Coverage and its Network of Ambivalences 

  Foxman, Maxwell Henry; Nieborg, David B. (Journal of Games Criticism, 2016-02-03)

  It's as tough a time as ever for game critics, who seem to be stuck between a rock and a hard place—an industry that acts as gatekeepers to most of the information they cover and an increasingly combative readership. Because ...
• Book Piracy As Peer Preservation 

  Foxman, Maxwell Henry; Tenen, Dennis (Computational Culture, 2014-11-09)

  In describing the people, books, and technologies behind one of the largest "shadow" libraries in the world, we find a tension between the dynamics of sharing and preservation. The paper proceeds to contextualize contemporary ...
• United We Stand: Platforms, Tools and Innovation With the Unity Game Engine 

  Foxman, Maxwell (SAGE Journals, 2019-11-21)

  The skirmish between game engines Unity and Unreal presents a new front in the platformization of cultural production. This article argues that such programs are “platform tools.” They enable amateurs and professionals to ...

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