refig notes

ReFig

DiGRA again
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/42s19b/seems_like_digra_might_be_preparing_for_round_two/

I came across this press release from Gamasutra https://archive.is/zMoJD

It's about ReFig http://www.refig.ca/about-refig/. Which aims to have more
women in the Games industry, and the premise seems to be the usual nonsense
about misogyny keeping women out. What caught my attention is their People &
Partners page which contains a lot of our old friends from DiGRA such as
Mia Consalvo http://www.refig.ca/people-partners/



ReFig

Issued by University of Leicester Press Office
Issue date: 26 January 2016
The marginalised status of women in the video game industry will be challenged
by a new international research project involving the University of
Leicester.
Video games routinely feature ¿hyper-sexualised¿ female characters , and
despite around half of all game players being women they remain dramatically
underrepresented in the industry, with only 4 per cent of programmers being
female and women making up just 22 per cent of the industry workforce as a
whole.
Dr Alison Harvey from the University of Leicester¿s Department of Media and
Communication explained: "Women and girls have largely been excluded from
games culture ¿ as players, makers and protagonists. Additionally, many of
those who do participate in games have been publicly harassed both online and
offline as exemplified by the ¿Gamergate¿ hate campaign.
...
The project, which will run until 2019, is led by Professor Jennifer Jenson
at York University in Canada and includes the University of Leicester as well
as 20 partners from international universities, gaming companies, gaming
collectives, gaming NGOs, and professional associations.
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/264359/Marginalisation_of_women_in_video_game_industry_to_be%20challenged.php
https://archive.is/zMoJD


Refiguring Innovation in Games (ReFiG) is a 5 year project supported by the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada


https://archive.is/QprYx -> http://www.refig.ca/people-partners/
https://archive.is/dXsmv -> http://www.refig.ca/projects/games-culture/
https://archive.is/LkCIH -> http://www.refig.ca/system-failure-jam/
https://archive.is/kEDiE -> http://www.refig.ca/refig-inaugural-workshop/
https://archive.is/V3XTZ -> http://www.refig.ca/contact/
https://twitter.com/refiggames https://archive.is/Jwgiz



* Jennifer Jenson - Principle Investigator
Professor of Pedagogy and Technology, York University
* Suzanne de Castell - Research Lead
Dean of Education, University of Ontario Institute of Technology
* T. L. Taylor - Research Lead
Professor of Comparative Media, MIT
* Helen Kennedy - Research Lead
Deputy Head of College of Art, Design & Media, Brighton University
* Sean Gouglas - Research Lead
Associate Professor, University of Alberta
* Colleen Thumblert - Project Manager
York University
* Emily Flynn-Jones - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
York University
* Mia Consalvo  - Co-Investigator
Canadian Chair in Games, Concordia
* Lynn Hughes - Co-Investigator
Associate Professor in Intermedia, Concordia
* Bart Simon - Co-Investigator
Associate Professor in Sociology and Anthropology, Concordia
* Celia Pearce - Co-Investigator
Associate Professor in Game Design, Northeastern University
* Emma Westecott - Co-Investigator
Assistant Professor, OCAD
* Nina Huntemann - Co-Investigator
Professor, Suffolk University
* Mary K. Bryson - Co-Investigator
Professor & Director, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
* Katherine Brown - Co-Investigator
Professor of Human Geography, University of Brighton
* Nick Taylor - Co-Investigator
Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
* Shira Chess - Co-Investigator
Assistant Professor of Mass Media Arts, University of Georgia
* Alison Harvey - Co-Investigator
Lecturer in Media and Communications, University of Leicester
* Diane Carr - Co-Investigator
Research Officer, University of London
* Chloe Brushwood Rose - Co-Investigator
Associate Professor, York University
* Didi Khayatt - Co-Investigator
Associate Professor Women¿s Studies and Education. York University



Emily Flynn Jones:

http://www.museumofplay.org/research-publications/research-fellowships/past-fellowship-recipients/october-2014/emily-flynn-jones
http://yorku.academia.edu/EmilyFlynnJones/Followers

And it just gets worse with Mia Consalvo:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mia-consalvo-a8855
http://quello.msu.edu/event/post-race-post-feminist-post-privacy-social-media-strategies-for-addressing-racism-and-sexism-a-talk-by-lisa-nakamura/
>The identity of the video gamer as young, straight, white, and male is
changing to reflect a more diverse group of users, but this transition has
been accompanied by struggle and conflict. This August, gaming journalist
Leigh Alexander declared that ¿¿Gamers¿ are over,¿ but women and minorities
still face significant harassment from other players in pseudonymous
multiplayer environments. This talk will analyze how social media platforms
such as Tumblr.com, a site that is particularly popular with women, have been
successfully deployed by so-called ¿social justice warriors¿ to bring
awareness to this problem by publicizing egregious examples of sexist and
racist harassment suffered by female gamers and gamers of color.
Not. Even. Trying to hide it anymore.

Celia Pearce:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/celia-pearce-b8257
http://www.northeastern.edu/camd/gamedesign/people/celia-pearce/
http://ipat.gatech.edu/celia-pearce
http://gatech.academia.edu/CeliaPearce/Papers

Emma Westcott:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmawestecott
>Women in Games WIGJ
>Games for Change
>Girls Learning Code
>Arts and Culture
>Civil Rights and Social Action
http://www.digra.org/digital-library/authors/westecott-emma/
>Feminist Art Game Praxis

>Professor & Director, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH0z00t8OlM
http://grsj.arts.ubc.ca/persons/mary-bryson/
http://gender.stanford.edu/people/mary-k-bryson
http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/21918412/mary-k-bryson