For those who haven’t been following, this is the second to last installment in a series of posts where I analyze 5 different video game company policies or codes of conduct. In this series, I examine the connections between the company’s public perception, noted problems with harassment, and the company […]
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Zynga is a particularly interesting company to study because they pioneered a new type of gaming company. Founded in 2007, Zynga led the social game revolution that continues to take in astonishing profits. As of 2013, Zynga has three of the top five games on Facebook and has 265 million […]
This is part of an ongoing series where I visually analyze video game company policy. It is incomplete when taken out of context from the rest of my diss and argument, but still, I think, interesting. With this work, I hope to be able to find an implementable way companies […]
(For those of you who did not read my last blog, this is part of my dissertation which focuses on a visual analysis of video game company policy. Obvs what I put forth in my diss is more nuanced and situated in academicy stuff, but this is more fun.) […]
This is a visualization based on word frequency. It has not been adjusted in any way. For my diss, I am using a two-pronged approach for analyzing gaming industry company policy. The first is a hermenuetic analysis and the second is a visual analysis. Using various methods of data visualization […]
As some of you may know, Nicole Marie and I were in Vegas last week giving a talk at the CCCC’s conference along with Matt Barton and Samantha Blackmon (in absentia). You may not, however, know that I am an avid, avid gambler. I play poker at least once a […]
In case you missed part 1 of Games and Feminist Research Methodology, I’ll give you a brief overview of what I’m up to. My literature review is set up in a way to put fields into conversation that really aren’t in conversation. I make the argument that the research done […]
I have just finished reading Jesper Juul’s A Casual Revolution: Reinventing Video Games and Their Players. For anyone interested in the casual/hardcore debate, I highly recommend this quick read (about 150 pages excluding research data). Since I’ve talked numerous times about the casual/hardcore debate, most often focusing on the gender […]
It’s difficult to find provocative topics to write about each week when I am drowning in dissertation work. Right now I’m working on my literature review, which though often a throwaway chapter, is crucial to my argument. The lack of overlap between important fields, and the ways I suggest we […]
I think it’s important to recognize the connections between the video game industry and other STEM fields. Too often video games get forgotten because they’re, well, games. They are play. They aren’t serious. (All of which of course is contentious.) Brilliant work is being done about the gender inequities in […]
“Gender, Race, and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers” by Emilio Castilla is a report done in 2008 at MIT to explore the literature on merit-based reward systems. Castilla uses huge amounts of data that “empirically establishes the existence of this bias and shows that gender, race, and nationality differences continue to […]
Update 3: After a restart, steam used my “cloud” save to replace my local save. Which deleted all of my progress for the entire day. So my journey ends here for now. I got to episode 3, but am back at the very beginning. So, I’m done. Unless anyone knows […]
Hey everyone, we here at NYMG decided to give you all a special treat this Sunday. Starting at 10am eastern, nymg-er Alex Layne will be playing The Walking Dead from start to finish, complete with video stream, audio updates, and blog reflections. This will be an all day experience, so […]
Women in the game industry, or women as gamers, have been an increasingly popular topic in the media. Just this week, two friends who have nothing to do with gaming sent me articles about women in gaming that they came across in their daily non-game reading. This is a positive […]
We have done many game reviews here at NYMG, but this is the first book review. I felt compelled to write this review after reading Balsamo’s book. To give you an anecdotal idea of how much I liked it, I sat down with a cup of coffee Saturday morning and […]
For those who may have missed our last podcast, we had an incredible interview with author Christa Charter. In the interview, Charter narrates the struggle between portraying a female protagonist who is sexual, and likes her sexuality, and one who is a slut. She found in her research that there […]