She studies the secret life of software, mostly at the nexus of digital games and surveillance studies and has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork with game developers since 2012. Past projects included work on digital media surveillance, social influences on software development processes, and gamification. She is involved with Waterloo’s Games Institute and the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute and is an associate editor of Surveillance and Society. She has published in edited collections such as The Gameful World, published by MIT Press, as well as the journals First Monday, Economy & Society, FibreCulture and New Media and Society. For more information, visit IndieInterfaces.com and jenniferwhitson.com.