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  Crashing GamerGate

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  November 10, 2014

  12 comments

  Crashing GamerGate Race and Gender in Games GamerGate Christina Hoff Sommers Curator's Note This post is about a controversy in video games identified by the Twitter hashtag GamerGate that has been taking place online since August. To read background ...
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  my students watched

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  Kishonna Gray Eastern Kentucky University

  Tuesday, November 11, 2014 — 4:36 pm

  idea what she was talking about. Made me feel good to know that maybe they are in fact learning ...
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  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games

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  Kishonna Gray Eastern Kentucky University

  November 12, 2014

  15 comments

  Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games whiteness video games racism blackness Curator's Note The purpose of this discussion is to examine how the normalization of Whiteness and masculinity within video games leads ...
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  Post-racism within the post-apocalyptic

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  John Vanderhoef UCSB

  Wednesday, November 12, 2014 — 6:25 pm

  on the interstate away from Atlanta, instantly framing him as a criminal. We later learn that Lee is ...
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  Playing While Black

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  Wednesday, November 12, 2014 — 10:23 pm

  a defensive stance learned from his MW:COD playing experiences being a black male gamer? Many of the comments ...
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  Bayonetta, Femme Disturbance, and AAA Queer Desires

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  Amanda Phillips University of California, Davis

  November 13, 2014

  6 comments

  Bayonetta, Femme Disturbance, and AAA Queer Desires sexuality queer feminist Curator's Note This week, I’m contributing a critical fanvid made as part of my research work on the video game Bayonetta. Originally released in 2009, the title character i ...
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  Some Initial Thoughts on Bayonetta 2

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  John Vanderhoef UCSB

  Thursday, November 13, 2014 — 5:57 pm

  adversary and ally). Based on my quick run through of the game, unfortunately, I think a lot of the radical ...
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  December 01, 2014 to December 05, 2014
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  Scholarly Striptease. Or, The Unintended Consequences of Film Studies For Free

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  Catherine Grant Aarhus Universitet

  December 01, 2014

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  Scholarly Striptease. Or, The Unintended Consequences of Film Studies For Free Curation fan videos feminist film theory online scholarship open access video essay Curator's Note In "Little Books", a contribution to Grieveson and Wasson' ...
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  On Fans and Dialogue

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  Vicki Callahan usc

  Tuesday, December 2, 2014 — 12:26 am

  and elements of film style. I have learned much from the silent film community in Los Angeles and feel ...

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