Kate Raynes-Goldie

Kate Raynes-Goldie
Born Toronto, Canada
Nationality Canadian & New Zealand

Dr. Kate Raynes-Goldie is a Western Australian-based interactive producer, experimental/pervasive game designer and internet scholar who is currently the first Director of Interactive Programs at FTI.[1] Kate co founded Atmosphere Industries, an award winning game design studio.[2] She co-authored the first scholarly examination of friending on social networks and co-created Perth's first pervasive game, Ghost Town, in 2007.[3]

She gave a talk on physical-world based gaming at TEDxPerth.[4] She holds a PhD in internet studies from Curtin University, her thesis, was titled 'Privacy in the Age of Facebook'.[5] The thesis was the 6th most downloaded thesis of all time, from the Curtin University library repository as of May 2014. Raynes-Goldie is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Curtin.

She lives in Fremantle, WA. In her free time, Dr Raynes-Goldie is interested in cats and yoga.

References

  1. ↑ "Film institute to support gamers".
  2. ↑ Bigge, Ryan (Jul 11, 2010). "Welcome to gentrification, the game". The Toronto Star. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "Gamers hunt for support".
  4. ↑ "What games can be: Kate Raynes-Goldie at TEDxPerth".
  5. ↑ Robertson, Katie (Apr 20, 2013). "Perth academic Kate Raynes-Goldie says Facebook aims to end privacy". PerthNow. Retrieved 9 April 2014.