Currently, she’s an assistant professor at The New School, where she is developing a cross-divisional journalism program. Previously, she covered videogames for All Things Considered, a topic about which she’s also written for The New York Times, The LA Times, GQ, Details, and Slate. She’s the co-author of the 2006 New York Times-notable book Smartbomb about the games industry, and has been interviewed and cited on the subject in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, and The Believer among other places. Currently, Chaplin is working on a Knight Foundation grant developing digital models of complex systems in the news.