Alexander Mirowski is a recent PhD graduate from Indiana University’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. His dissertation, “Making (Outer) Space to Play: A Cosmic History of the American Video Game,” is a thematic history of the early American video game industry told through one of its oldest and most beloved products—games set in outer space.

He is also interested in and has published on the infrastructure and invisible labor that supports video games. He is currently working on a new methodology to study the history of maintenance and repair practices of video games and other cultural media.