Jack Fennimore is a PhD candidate in the Communication, Rhetoric and Digital Media program at North Carolina State University. He is interested in the money and power of the games industry. His research interests include video games and representation, video game monetization, and video game development work culture. He was a contributor for news website Heavy, where he wrote over 1,000 articles and gained over 11 million pageviews. He has presented at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, the Society of the Philosophy of Technology conference, Midwest Popular Culture Association's annual conference, the Popular Culture Association's annual conference, Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Global Fusion, and DePaul Pop Culture Conference. In his spare time, he loves video games, watching YouTube videos, biking, walking, and cooking (he makes a mean Aglio e Olio).