Playing at Leadership: Games, Gaming, & Leadership Studies
"Reality, unlike games, is broken." – Jane McGonigal
There are two things I frequently see in arguments against diversity in games (and other media, but especially in games) which are worth noting because of the spectacular way in which they completely miss the ideological boat about which the … Read More »
One of the things we require of all our students here at the Jepson School is a course entitled Critical Thinking and Methods of Inquiry, which is the first required sequence class for our newly-admitted sophomores. One part of that … Read More »
In my other life (the one where I’m a Shakespeare scholar), I’ve been doing research on early modern witchcraft, and–this week–on the witch-hunts which ran roughshod over Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the process, I came to … Read More »
So on Monday my response to the latest Tropes vs. Women in Video Games episode (season 2, episode 1) went up on TLF. The episode–in a new style from the previous season of the series–is all about butts, which struck … Read More »