First: thanks for taking time to read this.
My work's main focus is Culture — which I define as whatever keeps you glued to the couch, or whatever motivates you enough to get up off that couch. So: everything. Sometimes I report on Culture, as a journalist. Sometimes I analyze it, as an academic. Occasionally, I create it.
Most recently, I worked as an on-camera correspondent for VICE News Tonight. My documentaries have appeared on HBO, VICE TV, and Showtime, my writing in the Guardian and Los Angeles Times, and my work has won two Emmys and a Pulitzer Prize.
As a scholar, I hold a PhD in Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture from Cornell University, specializing in underground Japanese hip-hop cultures.
I've also established the world's largest publicly-accessible collection of Japanese hip-hop music and materials.
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I'm @dexdigi on 🐦 Twitter and 📷 Instagram, this is my 🔗 LinkedIn, or you can 📧 email me here.
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VICE News, 2016 - 2023
My work has appeared on HBO, VICE TV, and Showtime. I have been nominated three times for News Emmys, the first for coverage of the opioid crisis in Ohio, the second for a mini-documentary filmed entirely in virtual reality, the third for a segment on police behavior after George Floyd protests. I've also received three LA Press Club nominations.
I cover everything from politics to culture to policing in the United States. Internationally, I've covered suicide crises in Japan, artificial intelligence in China, academic competitions in Jamaica, and electoral politics in South Africa.
RESET/The Unauthorized Guide to Video Games, 2021
A 10-episode series covering the unseen world of video games. From the US military using game technology to recruit teenagers (and treat PTSD), to the "losers" of the esports industry, to what happens a multi-billion dollar franchise notices that black players are modifying their game, to uncovering a lost '90s arcade game that could have been a hit - but instead was almost erased from history. RESET goes behind the industry hype, to meet the people who are changing the ways we play.