Playing at Leadership: Games, Gaming, & Leadership Studies
"Reality, unlike games, is broken." – Jane McGonigal
Recently I’ve seen something happening across multiple venues in my professional career, both at my own institution and in organizations of which I am a part. That thing is this: colleagues are being targeted for harassment, doxxing, and threats because … Read More »
So I’m a big fan of technology. I own a lot of it. I have a smartphone, a work laptop, a personal laptop/tablet convertible, a work tablet, and two gaming consoles. That does not include the two laptops and two … Read More »
Today, instead of doing research, I decided to do something to help other people research. As groups of scientifically-minded people begin to organize a March for Science headed to Washington D.C., I thought it would be a nice gesture to … Read More »
This week is “It Ends Now” week on my university campus. It is also the week that one of our students posted on Huffington Post about being sexually assaulted by another student and her belief that the administration of our … Read More »
Today Wired posted a story about the new best/worst writing app, which of course made me want to go try it, because clearly that’s a better way to spend my time than excising words out of a conference paper that … 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 »
New installment of my As-I-Play Bastion series over on TLF. In unrelated news, I got my advance copies of my book today. I have a book. It is published. It is a Real Thing. It is not at all about … Read More »
I did a write-up on Elegy for a Dead World from Dijoban Games over on TLF, including some of my students’ responses to it (I used it in class).
This post is going to address the question of ethics in games writing. Really address it, though, not sealion my way around true problems by waving flags or pointing fingers. This is a problem that isn’t specific to games journalism, … Read More »
Last year, I was lucky enough to be a call-in guest on the Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU out of DC, talking about diversity in games. Yesterday, I got to do it again, but since it’s summer, I was able … Read More »
Recently, a couple of prominent think-pieces on academia and feelings have been circulating, at least amongst those in academia (I’m not sure what the rest of the world thinks of them). The first has grown in popularity and infamy: “I’m … Read More »