Serious and Persuasive Games: Depression Quest The Tessera FoldIt Participatory Game Design: Kidsteam Participatory Design for Serious Games Framing Our Project: LongStory: A Dating Game for the Real World don’t take it personally, babe… Ren’Py Read More →
Organized by the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession MLA Convention, New York City, January 4-7, 2018 —————————————————————————— Digital spaces present a number of challenges to feminist discourses: platforms such as Twitter suffer from design affordances that amplify trolling and harassment, unmoderated online forums can easily become havens for misogynist discourse, and being visible as a woman online is associated with sexual harassment and continual microaggressions. The recent election and its aftermath have particularly brought attention to the discursive challenges faced in the context of charged, intersectional, feminist debate. However, digital spaces are increasingly sites of learning, from massively online courses toRead More →
This spring, I’m co-teaching the Theories of Text & Technology graduate course in University of Central Florida’s Text & Technology PhD program with Dr. Mel Stanfill. Co-teaching is always an exciting opportunity to combine theoretical approaches and perspectives into the making of a syllabus, and I’m really looking forward to this one. Here’s our plan for the semester: T&T Theory Course description We will examine how theoretical discourse has evolved through shifting technological platforms, with particular attention to the challenges software, code, and networks present to our understanding of texts. We will engage with examples of complex procedural works ranging from video games to electronicRead More →