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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Roblox workshop</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Birds of a Feather online workshop </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Date
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">29 January 2026 </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Time</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">: 10pm - 12:30pm UTC</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">Location:</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> online</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Do you study Roblox? Do you want to connect with other scholars across the globe who are doing the same? </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Come and join our birds of a feather meeting. Researchers studying Roblox shouldn't fly solo. This workshop brings together scholars investigating one of the world's largest virtual platforms.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This workshop aims to connect graduate students, early-career and established scholars who are currently studying — or plan on researching — Roblox. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Roblox is a virtual space with millions of daily active users playing games (which Roblox calls ‘experiences’) and potentially taking part in real time events — concerts, parties, and conferences.
Currently, there are over 150 million active users daily on Roblox, with roughly 40% being under 13 (Roblox, 2025).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We welcome scholars from diverse backgrounds studying Roblox from various approaches and perspectives to share their ongoing work. This is an opportunity to connect with other researchers
interested in this topic, network and discuss your research interests with similarly interested people. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This workshop will include </span></p>
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collective discussion of participants’ research, </p>
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networking activities, </p>
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mentoring sessions in small groups with similar interests.</p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Interested participants should fill out this
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://forms.gle/4183MouqAbaLxCaH9" data-outlook-id="14d7e757-daf1-4a92-ac34-e18f972dbedb" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">form</a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(238, 0, 0);">
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">until
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;">January 9 2026</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. We will notify participants of acceptance until January 16. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Link to form:
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://forms.gle/4183MouqAbaLxCaH9" data-outlook-id="84c3eeaa-2c4c-4437-b800-f9a572032d2c" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://forms.gle/4183MouqAbaLxCaH9</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Organizers: Natalie Coulter (York University, Canada) and Ana Kubrusly (NOVA University of Lisbon and Polytechnic University of Setúbal, Portugal)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Questions should be directed to<b> Ana Kubrusly a59022@campus.fcsh.unl.pt</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Natalie Coulter, PhD
</b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">(she/her) (on research leave until June 2026)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: red;"><b>•</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b> Associate</b></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span><span style="color: black;"><b>Professor
</b></span><span style="color: red;"><b>•</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">
</span><span style="color: black;"><b>Communication and Media Studies </b></span><span style="color: red;"><b>•</b></span><span style="color: black;"><b> YORK UNIVERSITY </b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/ncoulter/" title="https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/ncoulter/" data-outlook-id="6f36e793-30dc-482c-877e-76a582531bf1" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/ncoulter/</a></u></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">Principal Investigator:
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="https://www.yorku.ca/laps/research/bearing-witness/" data-outlook-id="b2bdee35-0822-4fb6-8524-f84efb7089ad" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Bearing
Witness Project</a></u></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">Principal Investigator:
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="https://www.yorku.ca/laps/research/questioning-kidtech/about/" data-outlook-id="0bd5d457-0d8f-4014-8153-0f96622a107b" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Questioning
KidTech</a></u></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: black;">Latest Book:
</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="https://learninglink.oup.com/access/gasher10e" data-outlook-id="f988c2d3-2a4b-42c5-a783-a38eff4db36c" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Media and Communication
in Canada</a></u></span></p>
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