Souvik Mukherjee is an independent researcher working on digital game narratives. Besides his research on videogames, Souvik has also been involved in analysing the impact of social media projects on communities, especially in relation to transliteracy and business innovation, as a research fellow in the Film, Media and Journalism department of De Montfort University. He completed his PhD on storytelling in New Media, especially focusing on videogame narratives, from Nottingham Trent University and has published and presented papers on a range of related topics. Besides New Media, Souvik also takes a keen interest in e-learning and has been involved in analysing online media and virtual learning network usage in a higher education framework. After completing his project at DMU, he has returned to India, where he hails from, to develop New Media research networks. He has recently joined Presidency University, Kolkata as Assistant Professor.

Souvik muses about his research on his blog ‘Ludus ex Machina’ (http://readinggamesandplayingbooks.blogspot.com/) and tweets as @prosperoscell.