Ph.D. in Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong M.Sc in Digital Games, University of Malta B.A. (Hons) in English, University of Malta
Research Interests
Creative Play, Designed Play
Design Methods and Design Iteration
Board Games, including communities, production and design
Online Player Communities, especially creative communities
Selected Publications
Harrington, J. and Z. Zhang (2022). “Negotiating Chinese Youth Cyber Nationalism through Play Methods.” British Journal of Chinese Studies 12.
Gualeni, S., Vella, D., and Harrington, J. (2017). “De-Roling from Experiences and Identities in Virtual Worlds.” Journal For Virtual Worlds Research 10(2).
Harrington, J. (2020). Workshops of Our Own: Analysing Constraint Play in Digital Games, City University of Hong Kong.
Harrington, J. (2018). Infra-ordinary Rewritings: Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp as an Introductory Study. DiGRA 2018.
Harrington, J. (2018). On Buddhist Frogs and Flower Arrangements: Out-of-Game’s Spatial Production in Friendship Games. Philosophy of Computer Games 2018.