Consalvo has authored a number of scholarly books and publications on the topic of video games in contemporary society and the culture of gameplay.
[1] Consalvo held the post of president of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) from 2012 to 2016.
She previously held the post of president of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) from 2009 to 2011.
According to her research, cheating for real world profit has been occurring for at least two decades, costing the video game industry millions of dollars.
[3] Consalvo has also researched bullying of females, LGBT and minority players in games, pointing to the frequency of in-game bullying as an indicator of the state of online gaming culture.