Dr. Erika Solis
2026 Conferences
Racializing the Fog: Affordances, Silent Communication, and Racialized Gameplay in Dead by Daylight
Presented at the Union for Democratic Communications
Co-Authored by Dr. Yasemin Beykont, Saeed Dabbour, and Dr. Sarah Deluca
“You’re powered up, get in there!” Playbour and Autoethnographic Approaches to Overwatch Microtransactions
Presented at the Union for Democratic Communications
Co-Authored by Dr. Yasemin Beykont and Saeed Dabbour
“If it’s gonna act like fortnite it better be free like fortnite” Player Experience of Microtransactions Across Online Gaming Communities
Presented at the National Communication Association
Co-Authored by Isa Middleton
“300% of the cost for 35% of the value”: Player Commodification Through Video Game Microtransactions
Presented at What is Research?
Tiny Text: Technical Walkthroughs of Gaming Interfaces & Dark Patterns
Presented at What is Research?
Love in the Comments: A critical analysis of audience reception of Netflix's Love on the Spectrum
Presented at the Society of Cinema & Media Studies
Co-Authored by Abigail Simmerman
2024 Conferences
Video Game Difficulty and Accessibility Discourse: A Case Study of Online Articles and Posts about FromSoftware
Presented at the National Communication Association’s (NCA) Games
Erika Solis and Sky Anderson
Awarded one of the Top Paper Awards for the Game Studies Division
Fortnite’s Commodification of Children via In-Game Advertising and Advergaming
Presented at the International Communication Association (ICA)
Erika Solis and Yasemin Beykont
2025 Conferences
Cosmetic Hierarchies: An Autoethnography on Self-Validation and Social Cohesion in Overwatch 2
Presented at the National Communication Association
Saeed Dabbour, Yasemin Beykont, and Erika Solis
Reflexivity in Platformized Game Production: Developer Accounts on Roblox's Dress to Impress
Presented at the International Communication Association (ICA)
Daniel Nielsen and Erika Solis
2023 Conferences
Exploring connections between children’s advertising problems and video game microtransactions
Presented at the National Communication Association (NCA
Digital Disregard: A Case for Amending Quebec’s Children Advertising Legislation
Presented at Canadian Communication Association
Erika Solis, Yasemin Beykont, and Sydney Forde
Awarded the CRTC Prize in the PhD category
National domain name arbitration regimes: Convergence or divergence?
Presented at the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC)
Erika Solis, Ryan Wang, Sydney Forde, Ahmed Alrawi, and Krishna Jayakar
Recommending Best Practices for Child Labor Laws & “kidfluencers”
Presented at the International Communication Association (ICA)
Predictors of support for public funding of news organizations: 23-country cross-national study
Presented at the International Communication Association (ICA)
Erika Solis, Sydney Forde, Ryan Wang, and Krishna Jayakar.
2022 Conferences
“Success is not illegal:” An analysis of antitrust news coverage of Epic Games v. Apple
Presented to the National Communication Association (NCA)
Assessing the Depth and Importance of the Privacy Policies of Children’s MMO Games
Presented at the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC)
2021 Conferences
"The chance of receiving, say, Lionel Messi, is microscopic: but theoretically possible”: Loot boxes & consumption vulnerability for child gamers
Presented at the National Communication Association (NCA)
2020 Conferences
Relationships Between Narratives in Video Games & Fandom Behaviors
Presented at the International Communication Association (ICA)
Erika Solis, Ryan Tan, Annie Dooley, and Sunny Xu
“You Will Never Win:” Digital Communication & Reviews of Mobile Gambling Applications
Presented at the National Communication Association (NCA)
Erika Solis and Alison Novak
The Big Era of Podcasting: A Timely Examination of Advertisements in Popular Podcasts
Presented at the Association of Marketing Theory and Practice
Erika Solis, Kristine Johnson, Marilena Vilceanu, and Kailey Bertelson