From Barbie® to Mortal Kombat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Barbie® to Mortal Kombat write by Justine Cassell. This book was released on 2000-02-28. From Barbie® to Mortal Kombat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Girls and computer games—and the movement to overcome the stereotyping that dominates the toy aisles. Many parents worry about the influence of video games on their children's lives. The game console may help to prepare children for participation in the digital world, but at the same time it socializes boys into misogyny and excludes girls from all but the most objectified positions. The new "girls' games" movement has addressed these concerns. Although many people associate video games mainly with boys, the girls games' movement has emerged from an unusual alliance between feminist activists (who want to change the "gendering" of digital technology) and industry leaders (who want to create a girls' market for their games). The contributors to From Barbie® to Mortal Kombat explore how assumptions about gender, games, and technology shape the design, development, and marketing of games as industry seeks to build the girl market. They describe and analyze the games currently on the market and propose tactical approaches for avoiding the stereotypes that dominate most toy store aisles. The lively mix of perspectives and voices includes those of media and technology scholars, educators, psychologists, developers of today's leading games, industry insiders, and girl gamers. Contributors Aurora, Dorothy Bennett, Stephanie Bergman, Cornelia Brunner, Mary Bryson, Lee McEnany Caraher, Justine Cassell, Suzanne de Castell, Nikki Douglas, Theresa Duncan, Monica Gesue, Michelle Goulet, Patricia Greenfield, Margaret Honey, Henry Jenkins, Cal Jones, Yasmin Kafai, Heather Kelley, Marsha Kinder, Brenda Laurel, Nancie Martin, Aliza Sherman, Kaveri Subrahmanyam
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat write by Yasmin B. Kafai. This book was released on 2008. Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brings together new media theorists, game designers, educators, psychologists and industry professionals, including some of the contributors to the earlier volume, to look at how gender intersects with the broader contexts of digital games today.
From Barbie to Mortal Kombat
From Barbie to Mortal Kombat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Barbie to Mortal Kombat write by Justine Cassell. This book was released on 2000. From Barbie to Mortal Kombat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat
Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat write by Yasmin B. Kafai. This book was released on 2011-02-25. Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Girls and women as game players and game designers in the new digital landscape of massively multiplayer online games, “second lives,” “modding,” serious games, and casual games. Ten years after the groundbreaking From Barbie to Mortal Kombat highlighted the ways gender stereotyping and related social and economic issues permeate digital game play, the number of women and girl gamers has risen considerably. Despite this, gender disparities remain in gaming. Women may be warriors in World of Warcraft, but they are also scantily clad “booth babes” whose sex appeal is used to promote games at trade shows. Player-generated content has revolutionized gaming, but few games marketed to girls allow “modding” (game modifications made by players). Gender equity, the contributors to Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat argue, requires more than increasing the overall numbers of female players. Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat brings together new media theorists, game designers, educators, psychologists, and industry professionals, including some of the contributors to the earlier volume, to look at how gender intersects with the broader contexts of digital games today: gaming, game industry and design, and serious games. The contributors discuss the rise of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) and the experience of girl and women players in gaming communities; the still male-dominated gaming industry and the need for different perspectives in game design; and gender concerns related to emerging serious games (games meant not only to entertain but also to educate, persuade, or change behavior). In today's game-packed digital landscape, there is an even greater need for games that offer motivating, challenging, and enriching contexts for play to a more diverse population of players. Contributors Cornelia Brunner, Shannon Campe, Justine Cassell, Mia Consalvo, Jill Denner, Mary Flanagan, Janine Fron, Tracy Fullerton, Elisabeth Hayes, Carrie Heeter, Kristin Hughes, Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins III, Yasmin B. Kafai, Caitlin Kelleher, Brenda Laurel, Nicole Lazzaro, Holin Lin, Jacki Morie, Helen Nissenbaum, Celia Pearce, Caroline Pelletier, Jennifer Y. Sun, T. L. Taylor, Brian Winn, Nick YeeInterviews with Nichol Bradford, Brenda Braithwaite, Megan Gaiser, Sheri Graner Ray, Morgan Romine
Rethinking Media Change
Rethinking Media Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Media Change write by David Thorburn. This book was released on 2004-09-17. Rethinking Media Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The editors' introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition—patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras, media forms, and cultures. The book includes case studies of such earlier media as the book, the phonograph, early cinema, and television. It also examines contemporary digital forms, exploring their promise and strangeness. A final section probes aspects of visual culture in such environments as the evolving museum, movie spectaculars, and "the virtual window." The contributors reject apocalyptic scenarios of media revolution, demonstrating instead that media transition is always a mix of tradition and innovation, an accretive process in which emerging and established systems interact, shift, and collude with one another.
