Episode 110: Back to School Special: Learning With, Through, and Around Games (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). With school starting recently for all of us, we’ve been thinking a lot about games as educational spaces. In this episode we talk about lots […]
TW: I’m going to go ahead and tag this one for racism and racist imagery. This week a little bit of hell broke loose in the serious games space that quickly circulated to the mainstream. Serious Games Interactive tweeted about a game that they were playing, Playing History 2: Slave […]
Be warned: spoilers for all seasons of The Walking Dead, the episodes of Fear the Walking Dead, and the comics through current continuity follow. Two weeks into the new spin-off, Fear the Walking Dead, a familiar refrain can be heard: the show is killing off all its Black male characters, a complaint […]
A couple of weeks ago, I was both surprised and not surprised when the story about Target and the gendered toy signs blew up. I was not surprised because I know many people still cling to traditional view of gender and toys, but I was surprised by the level of […]
The fall semester began last week at Purdue, and I’ve been spending some time this past week catching up with other members of my cohort and meeting with professors to discuss my research goals. And I’ve been thinking about a few things as a result of these conversations—conversations that, of […]
You find yourself licking the salt from your lips, an automatic action, as you guide your small boat through a flooded metropolis, the motor sputtering like an old man struggling to catch a breath. The encompassing silence in the seemingly desolate city would be crushing had it not been for […]
So I’ve been playing a lot of Fallout Shelter lately. Consoles games have fallen pretty much by the wayside as I have spent more time on campus and have come home exhausted. This is not an excuse for playing mobile games, but rather an explanation for why I have found […]
We have our newest guest writer and podcaster, Kishonna Gray! Kishonna is an Assistant Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University. She is also the Founder & Director of the Critical Gaming Lab housed in the School of Justice Studies. Kishonna completed her PhD in 2011 at Arizona […]
This semester, I’m trying a few different things in the classroom. I’m teaching in, and doing curriculum development for, a specialized program in conjunction with our college of tech, so this fall is all about (reasoned) experimentation. All the first-year writing students in this program are tech students who are all enrolled […]
I went to a Wine and Cheese Equity and Diversity Summit last week. This was held at my university to talk about the idea of implementing a racial issues course requirement to the common core. Now, I work at an urban university with plenty of diversity, in terms of ethnic […]
I spent most of my early life thinking my father would have really rather have had a boy. I thought this for a variety of reasons, but when I talked about it, he would always vehemently deny it. (And he hates it when I talk about this, so if you […]
There’s an article that I’ve seen making the rounds on Facebook called “Ariana Grande, Kim Kardashian, and the War on ‘Unlikable Women.'” And I read it, not because I necessarily have any strong feelings (in any direction) about Ariana Grande or Kim Kardashian but because I am struck by the […]
Recently there have been a couple of different articles that have addressed the way that girls and women interact with technology and how their experiences are affected by their interactions in games (via voice chat) or the ways that they perceive or are perceived by the community. As the mother […]
For five years Alex and I have been participating in the Extra Life marathon and raising money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals in Indiana and Minnesota. And for me this year will be no different. I will beg for pledges and sit in a room for 24 hours playing some of […]
Episode 109: Games, Identification, and Culture: A Conversation with Adrienne Shaw (Right click and save as to download, or find us on iTunes, Stitcher, or TuneIn). Not a milestone episode numerically, but what a shift: we added contributor Bianca Batti to the podcast crew (finally!) and were joined by our dear friend Kishonna Gray and […]
Do you frequently play games online in multiplayer mode? When you play online, do you use a mic to communicate to other players? According to a report entitled “Teens, Technology and Friendships” released by the Pew Research Center, if you’re a teenage girl, the answer to both of these questions […]