T. L.Taylor is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and cofounder and Director of Research for AnyKey, an organization dedicated to supporting and developing fair and inclusive esports. She is a qualitative sociologist who has focused on internet and game studies for over two decades, and her research explores the relations between culture and technology in online leisure environments. Her "Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming" (2018), which chronicled the emerging media space of online game broadcasting, won the 2019 American Sociological Association's Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology book award. She is also the author of "Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming" (2012) and "Play between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture" (2006), and coauthor of "Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method" (2012).