MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Ethan Gilsdorf will discuss some of the themes of his new book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms.
Issues around gender and gaming, as well as an opportunity for female MIT students who play digital games to come together to talk and play.
Gaming in Color is a full length documentary of the story of the queer gaming community, gaymer culture and events, and the rise of LGBTQ themes in video games.
Yasmin Kafai and Gabriela Richard expand the discussions on gender, race, and sexuality in gaming.
Gaming, as a medium often outside conversations on Blackness and digital praxis, is one that is becoming more visible, viable, and legible in making sense of Black technoculture.
