by Cody M | May 2, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
I’m thrilled to finally announce the launch of Queer Intersections: Visualizing the LGBTQ Video Game Archive! This collection of visualizations reveals trends in LGBTQ representation in video games from the 1980s to the 2000s using an intersectional lens,...
by Cody M | Mar 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
As I’ve mentioned in past blog posts, I’ve been working with the LGBTQ Video Game Archive, founded by Adrienne Shaw at Temple University, to record and preserve cases of LGBTQ representation in video games since the 1980s. One of the difficulties the Archive has faced...
by Cody M | Mar 2, 2018 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
Pokémon GO was, and is, one of the most interesting examples of gaming culture in the last two years. Many players and critics have commented on how fad-ish the game was: it became instantly and massively popular upon its release, but the number of active players...
by Cody M | Dec 14, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
The nascent field of queer game studies has expanded exponentially in recent years thanks to the work of scholars such as Adrienne Shaw, Bonnie Ruberg, and Edmond Chang. Yet, despite growing scholarly attention to queer characters and players, queer game studies faces...
by Cody M | Dec 12, 2017 | CHI Fellowship Program, CHI Grad Fellow Post
It’s no secret that gaming cultures and communities—including game studies—have longstanding issues with inclusion, especially inclusion of marginalized and underrepresented peoples. The most apparent example of this is #GamerGate, the thinly veiled, ongoing...
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