/8diamonds/ - /pol/ Intelligence Agency

>>2493

>ReFig

>Based in Canada

God fucking damn it, Canada

>People and Partners section

Go and take a look at it. Not a single gamer on the list

Reposting anon's dig

Hey guys, thought I would drop by and drop in some digging for what I have looked into the People and Partners for the new DiGRA debacle so far.

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

Oh boy, here we go..

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

>That picture

Seriously. This is how you put yourself into the professional world? Also, "Gender studies". Fancy that.

http://www.northeastern.edu/camd/gamedesign/people/celia-pearce/

http://ipat.gatech.edu/celia-pearce

Yeah Georgia Institute. Remember when I dropped that one when I told you all about Academia in this? But it gets better.

http://gatech.academia.edu/CeliaPearce/Papers

>Pearce_Games_as_Art_TheAestheticsOfPlay.pdf

Celia, you are just the gift that keeps on giving.

Emma Westcott:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmawestecott

>Women in Games WIGJ

>Games for Change

Concern intensifies.

>Girls Learning Code

>Arts and Culture

>Civil Rights and Social Action

Gee, no wonder DiGRA picked them.

http://www.digra.org/digital-library/authors/westecott-emma/

>Feminist Art Game Praxis

Thank you and goodnight Emma.

Mary K. Bryson:

>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

MicroSoft has no involvement in Academia or DiGRA goyim!

>>2502

>Gee, no wonder DiGRA picked them.

what do you mean? digra didn't "pick" anyone for anything.

>MicroSoft has no involvement in Academia or DiGRA goyim!

how does that link show microsoft has any link to Bryson? That is just a search for academic papers and not papers sponsored by microsoft or anything. It is their version of google scholar.

Their twitter, which was surprisingly hard to find

https://twitter.com/refiggames

>>>/v/8090524

Some more digging into the new DiGRA crap show.

Nick Taylor:

http://ncsu.academia.edu/NickTaylor

http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Nick-Taylor/1167516322

Oh this looks promising. Another culture cuck that DiGRA picked.

Alison Harvey:

http://leicester.academia.edu/AlisonHarvey

>Hi I'm from 4chaning Twine and Feminism on the same page

Well, I have seen enough here, but lets keep going.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/media/people/dr-alison-harvey

>DR Alison Harvey

>mfw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTL8f8Xqm4w

Diane Carr:

http://www.ioe.ac.uk/staff/LKLB_9.html

http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Detail?entitytype=2&searchtype=2&id=1729523

>Cultural Studies

>Computer games

>virtual worlds and education

..

Chloe Brushwood Rose:

http://cbr.blog.yorku.ca/

http://edu.yorku.ca/files/2015/04/AERA2015_faculty-presentations.pdf

>Purple hair

>Problem glasses

>Purges_Internally.jpg

Didi i Khayatt:

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/didi-i-khayatt-76167b3a

http://yorku.academia.edu/DidiKhayatt

>Professor

>Has not uploaded anything

Wat.

>Looks into what students of Didi think of her

http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=828719

Well..Kind of what I expected.

And then Didi shows up in this editorial reviews: http://www.amazon.com/Flaunt-Organizing-Education-Justice-Counterpoints/dp/143310265X

Thank you and goodnight. I should probably look into these DiGRA members affiliation with Canadian government. Because lets not lie to ourselves. They are.

Off sticky bump.

Are all digra papers free? If not what can we find on sci-hub.io?

>>2494

Great call! This topic is of much interest to us! If anything can be found on anyone deeply involved in this; a treasure trove of information might be found. Someone in DiGRA should be compromised. Getting access to a driver or any other servant should suffice in gleaning some additonal information to attempt a compromising operation. Dox should be dropped here whenever possible. I will follow up on some of these leads personally with my Cell.

INQUISITOR (=][=)

A wild entry appears. I'm not sure if this is DiGRA related, but it is sourced by the who's who of GJP – and tries to come off mild, but still spits out the same narrative.

Nieborg is a co author on this piece as well… So I suppose that is to be expected.

>>2593

Oh hey, I should maybe INCLUDE THE FUCKING LINK.

https://archive.is/2A1Yo

Cross post from

>>>/v/8340942

>>>/v/8340897

Well, outside of Digra it's a bit difficult. There were quite a few researchers that write with each other and you start to notice cliques of who is referencing who. I'm still a novice at digging myself, but I've got a mega folder of studies that I've found that have pretty major links between authors. https://mega.nz/#F!HRMyjY7A!e7CftSfz99qFAG4nWIv16Q

And I found the DSM-V for anyone that's interested in that kind of thing. https://mega.nz/#!DF8whSJa!CoS4LPg47ApClkybbAMPEmgivKwMw4_O9ulq7zluB7U

>>2597

Also if anyone can put this collection on an uploader that's not mega I'll give you a banana sticker.

>>2598

Also in case you guys don't have this, here's a link to all of the Digra articles. https://mega.nz/#F!aJ9lWYTK!vFEa2lT_pFLJ6U81hCCpVw

Sorry about it all being mega, don't know any better place for it all to be posted.

This is something I saved ages ago, no idea if it will help:

Let's have a look at some of the key members of their executive board shall we? http://www.digra.org/the-association/about-us/the-executive-board/

President: Mia Consalvo - Ideologue

http://coms.concordia.ca/faculty/consalvo.html

http://concordia.academia.edu/MiaConsalvo

http://tag.hexagram.ca/people/#peopleTitle-2680

http://tag.hexagram.ca/gamasutra-glass-ceilings-beer-and-feminism/

http://adanewmedia.org/2012/11/issue1-consalvo/ - gamer culture toxic

>Another area in need of critical feminist research is the role that alpha fans and player networks play in contributing to as well as often leading and magnifying (rather than defusing) toxic gamer culture.

Secretary: Ashley Brown - Ideologue

http://web.archive.org/web/20120319191636/http://manchester.academia.edu/AshleyBrown

>My past research interests were centered on the individual and the self in role playing games, particularly with regards to gender and sexual identities. The bulk of my PhD work looks closely at erotic role playing in World of Warcraft and Dungeons and Dragons and seeks to find transgression and diversity in imagined or virtual third spaces.

Media Liaison: Annika Waern - Ideologue

http://gamification-research.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Back_Naseh_Waern.pdf

http://annikawaern.wordpress.com/page/3/

http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:658665/FULLTEXT01.pdf

http://fdg2014.org/papers/fdg2014_poster_01.pdf http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EjDYh_KHls8C&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=Annika+Waern+feminism&source=bl&ots=qKAsMrx_uo&sig=0INAAZtuWX3nWnDNGUgnlGyRgwU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wXglVPjiPMzjO77qgfAP&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=Annika%20Waern%20feminism&f=false

>Gender-aware design is important in computer games in general, and perhaps even more so in the design of pervasive games, as these are played in the ordinary world. As pervasive games blur the distinction between game and non-game situations, they influence the everyday lives of their players.

Open Seat: Rachel Kowert - Ideologue, social gamer

http://uni-muenster.academia.edu/RachelKowert

https://twitter.com/linacaruso

>"The Relationship Between Online Video Game Involvement and Gaming-Related Friendships Among Emotionally Sensitive Individuals"

Open Seat: Dr. Hanna Elina Wirman - ideologue

http://www.hannawirman.net/

>Hanna's invited talks cover topics such as animal play, gender in games, virtual ethnography, and socially responsible game design. Hanna serves as the President of Chinese DiGRA, on the Board of International Gender Design Network and on the Executive Board of Digital Games Research Association.

Credit goes to Sargon for the research and the links. More information here, sources in the comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28D6_8KuIpc

Still wondering how their bullshit gets pushed towards devs and consumers? See this video for how the "Gamers are dead" articles came into being: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rouq-VdgXdo

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They also cite Dan Golding's "The End of Gamers": http://dangolding.tumblr.com/post/95985875943/the-end-of-gamers

Referenced in (at least):

Kotaku's "We Might Be Witnessing The 'Death of An Identity'": https://archive.is/R2ty1

RPS's "The Monday Papers": https://archive.is/RXjWz

Ars Technica's "The death of the “gamers” and the women who “killed” them": https://archive.is/ZyLdw

Buzzfeed's "Gaming Is Leaving “Gamers” Behind": https://archive.is/jVqJ8

Dan Golding is an academic who was present at a DiGRA Australia conference in 2014. http://digraa.org/post/digraa-2014-program/

In his tumblr post, a large amount of it is based off of Adrienne Shaw's "research": http://nms.sagepub.com/content/14/1/28.abstract

>To be a gamer was to signal a great many things, not all of which are about the actual playing of videogames. Research like this, by Adrienne Shaw, proves this point clearly.

Adrienne Shaw organized various talks and presentations, including the infamous "The Playful is Political - A Fishbowl Conversation on Identity and Diversity in Game Culture" at DiGRA conferences: http://adrienneshaw.com/research/conference-presentations/

Her paper was peer reviewed by The Fembot Collective: http://adareview.fembotcollective.org/

Oh look, Mia Consalvo, current president of DiGRA is a member of The Fembot Collective: http://fembotcollective.org/people/collective-members/

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One last piece I found on ReFig. It's old though (26 Jan of this year). The first part was just the reddit thread OP.

http://www.refig.ca/people-partners/

All the well known names are on this list: the three musketeers Jenson, De Castell and Nick Taylor, DiGRA-head Mia Consalvo, other DiGRA academics Helen Kennedy, Emily Flynn-Jones, Bart Simon, Celia Pearce, Emma Westecott, Katherine Brown, Shira Chess and Diana Carr are on there.

Archiving everything just to be safe.

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

"re-think & re-configuring of the video game industry" http://www.gamasutra.com/view/pressreleases/264359/Marginalisation_of_women_in_video_game_industry_to_be%20challenged.php … #refiggames #womenInGames #GamingIndustry #equality

This doesn't sound Orwellian at all. What could possibly go wrong?

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I skim-read the original press release (missed the gamedropping), thinking 'yeah, yeah - another project to encourage women into game development, doesn't sound unreasonable, good luck to them'.

But on their site:

http://www.refig.ca/projects/games-culture/

> News outlets in the U.S.A., U.K. and Canada have brought the violent, vitriolic, and misogynistic harassment of women game players and critics to public attention. Games have also been subject to serious critique for a lack of diversity in terms of story and characters, ones which often lean on tropes of disempowered femininity and the creation of experiences that, essentially, satisfy misogynist power fantasies. Amidst it all there are communities that have been building strong networks to support inclusive participation in gaming spaces, often in the face of serious challenges. Our mission is two-fold: to document the ‘ripple effects’ of the pervasive presence of gender stereotypes in games and discriminatory discourses/practices in play spaces and to document, and learn from, those communities who are actively building equitable and robust spaces for women and girls to engage in gaming.

Yep, more fuelling of the 'video games cause sexism' moral panic by feminist academics. They already have the conclusions, now they just need to fit the evidence to support them…

It's motte and bailey time again.

3 straight hours of digging that's already been done for us.

>>2603

>DiGRA will get less funding

digra doesn't get funding from outside sources. the only funding digra gets is from membership fees.

>>2612

Assumed they get less funding, that means people are leaving it, right?

>they like Frankfurter School

>/pol/ was right again

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/48coqa/i_just_figured_out_that_digra_researchers_really/