Margot Susca is a professorial lecturer at American University’s School of Communication in Washington, D.C. She received her Ph.D. in Mass Communications from the Florida State University in 2012 with a dissertation about the text, production and audience interaction with America’s Army. Her academic work focuses primarily on the political economy of media, violent video games and culture, and media law and policy. Her current work draws on her training at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, bringing in concepts of investigative reporting and watchdog journalism to critical and cultural media studies. She has published and presented work in these fields at conferences in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Follow her @MargotSusca.