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

• Creative Play, Designed Play
• Design Methods and Design Iteration
• Board Games, including communities, production and design
• Online Player Communities, especially creative communities

• 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.