What a year it was for female gamers, geeks and nerds. The Internet was ablaze, especially during the summer months, over ill-considered tweets, Facebook rants, opinion columns, and harassing flash games that policed women and girls’ participation in traditionally male popular culture. In case you missed it, I’m referring to controversies in game and comic [...]
Panic over spoilers is not new, and certainly not new to games. ***SPOILER ALERTS*** are like red flags on the information highway. And the danger reaches beyond the tight corners of the Internet. This past summer NBC apologized toUS audiences for revealing in its own promo spots the outcome of tape-delayed Olympic events yet to be aired on television. Oops! In [...]
By Suzanne Leonard & Nina Huntemann Some years ago when we were both graduate students, we, like many other junior scholars, discovered Console-ing Passions, an encounter that felt a bit like finding an oasis. Here was an organization with a history of supporting feminist media research, founded by a number of feminist scholars we studied [...]
I am thrilled to serve as editor of the second issue of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, which will focus on Feminist Game Studies. You can download a PDF of the call for papers here. CALL FOR PAPERS Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology Issue 2: Feminist Game [...]
It isn’t difficult to find feminist game studies, or feminist gamers. The reputation of misogyny in video game culture, lack of women and racial minorities in the industry, the perpetuation of player stereotypes in games marketing and the popular press, and the dearth of non-white, female, or queer characters in games has provided plenty of [...]
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