Social Justice & Gaming
Social Justice and Gaming: A Blog Carnival Roundup
In our introduction to the Social Justice and Gaming blog carnival, Heather Lang and I noted that…
Browsing: Blog Carnival 6
Backless Dresses and Walking Shirtless Scenes: Gender Politics in Castlevania.
My love affair with Castlevania has been long in the making. I like to tell people that Castlevania:…
Rhetoric, Politics, and Gaming: Building Collaborative Spaces for Game Studies
If you’re looking to discuss video games or gaming culture, there’s a good chance that your first thought…
Women Writing in Digital Spaces: Engaging #Gamergate and Twine in the Gender Studies-Composition Course
The idea for this assignment, taught in a junior-level composition/gender studies course at Ohio University, came to us…
Building Empathy and Empowering Others Through Live-Action Role Play
Video games have dominated much of the recent focus in game studies, including pedagogical applications, simulations and training,…
#DRC Chat – Interview with Coordinators of the Rhetoric, Politics, and Gaming series
The Rhetoric, Politics, and Gaming series at The Ohio State University brings students and faculty together once a…
Playwriting for the Classroom: Actively Constructing Identity with The Sims 3
It comes as little surprise that I, having grown up with video games, or rather, on video games,…
Walking Black: Examining Telltale’s The Walking Dead as a Racialized Pedagogical Zone
In 2012, Telltale Games released The Walking Dead, an episodic adventure game, to critical and commercial success. The…
Introducing the Social Justice & Gaming Blog Carnival
Welcome to the first post in the Social Justice & Gaming Blog Carnival. The inspiration for this blog…