Dr. Emma Leigh Waldron is an Assistant Researcher in Internet Culture and a Lecturer in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. She received her PhD in Performance Studies with additional certification in Feminist Research & Theory and Critical Theory from UC Davis. She also holds a master's degree in Performance Research from the University of Bristol. Her doctoral dissertation on mediated intimacy is currently under development as a monograph project entitled ASMR: Performance, Sensation, and the Internet. Dr. Waldron is also a co-founder and editor-at-large for the online journal Analog Game Studies.