The abstract and link to my graduate thesis, completed July, 2022. Enjoy learning about the diaspora of gaming communities and contrasting linguistic and cultural challenges that Ukrainian and Russian gamers must cross to escape virtual barriers.

Research suggests that some virtual communities hold high potential and ripe environmental factors for language-learning.

Why do we still treat the most culturally popular American dialect like its “Bad English?

Most people I encounter know what I am talking about when I tell them about my majors, but the ones who don’t know are still pretty common. “You’re studying… Linguistics? Thats languages, right? So you want to learn how to speak all the languages in the world or something?”