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Dr Bettina Bodi

Lecturer

Dr Bettina Bódi is a Lecturer in Media at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research specialisms are digital media and videogames, with a focus on agency. Her teaching includes game studies, social media, television studies, and cultural studies.

As an early career researcher interested in agency in and around videogames, Dr Bódi published a monograph with Routledge titled Videogames and Agency (2023), alongside articles on playfulness, agency, and narrativity in games.

She teaches and leads modules on undergraduate single and joint honours media degrees, and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.

Current Teaching

Bettina currently leads or contributes to the following undergraduate modules on the Media degree courses in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences:

Understanding Social Media
Cultural Studies
Researching Television
Media Past/Present
Researching Media and Culture

Bettina also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations, and welcomes expressions of interests for PhD projects that relate to her research interests, especially videogames and digital media.

Research Interests

Bettina's research focuses on agency and digital media, with a particular interest in how agency can be supported or constrained by the affordances of software and hardware. Her projects so far focused on agency in and around videogames.

Her research is informed by game studies, media studies, philosophy, cultural studies, and visual culture. She completed her PhD, jointly funded by the AHRC, the National Productivity Investment Fund, and The University and Nottingham, in 2021. Bettina' monograph, titled Videogames and Agency (Routledge 2023), offers a new conceptual framework that helps us understand how freedom to act is discussed by game developers, and how that in turn reflects in their design principles. By doing so the book presents a unique approach to studying agency that combines game design, game studies, and game developer discourse. Besides this, she also published research articles on designing for playfulness, and narrativity in videogames. She is currently interested in the connection between the recent (re)emergence of cosy games and neoliberalism.