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 »
I do not live in Charlottesville. I have been there, driven through its streets, walked on its campus. I live about an hour and a half from Charlottesville, but today–every day–I am responsible for the chaos on its streets and … 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 I am struggling to find words. Words are the things I use all the time. They are where I am most comfortable, most at home. I feel safe in words. Today I am struggling, not only to find words, … Read More »
I am generally pretty jaded when it comes to things like politics, elections, and presidential candidates. I dislike most of them. I dislike some of them more than others, and those are the ones for whom I do not vote. … Read More »
Here is the final post in the As-I-Play Bastion series on TLF. This post explains why I went from mostly being annoyed by Bastion to being a pretty serious fan. This is not a fun final post. It’s full of … Read More »
Today on NPC Gamer I wrote about the problem with sexist job culture, specifically in the gaming industry, but, really, pretty much anywhere. What it boils down to is that, especially in tech industries, but also in STEM fields and … Read More »
Last year, I made a post on International Women’s Day (March 8th) that was equal parts hopeful and bitter, still annoyed that GamerGate hadn’t yet died (it’s not totally gone, yet, but is more like those last, few chickenpox that … Read More »
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 »
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 »
This is not a post about games or gaming. It is not a post about how videogames cause or do not cause gun violence. This is a post about race and gender and entitlement and how those things, rife within … Read More »
So as last week’s SXSW “scandal” unfolded, I had a few thoughts about it. As it kept unfolding, I had a few more. They’re over on TLF.
So today’s bizarre straight-white-troll objection (no, not Star Wars–this is a gaming blog, so I’m leaving that one to the film people) is to the US version of Fatal Frame. Let me begin by saying I know absolutely nothing about the game itself, … Read More »
It’s October of 2015, we’re starting to wind down the year (amid pumpkin spice EVERYTHING), and this is something I’ve been contemplating for a couple of months now. It’s something I think has a lot of potential, and it’s something … Read More »
It’s Banned Books Week! This post has nothing obvious to do with games, but it is in the spirit of that whole ethics-in… thing–censorship! I’m including (after the cut below) a list of the banned or challenged books on the … Read More »