Mark Butler is a cultural scientist, futurologist, and research associate at the Department of European Media Studies at the Institute of Art and Media of Potsdam University. He has worked extensively on the culture of computer game-playing and is in the process of publishing his Ph.D. on playful techniques of the self. He is a founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal ilinx - Berliner Beiträge zur Kulturwissenschaft and a member of the Digital Games Research Network.