{"id":781,"date":"2025-04-24T16:11:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T16:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/?p=781"},"modified":"2025-05-13T21:35:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:35:54","slug":"reading-book-diversifying-barbie-and-mortal-kombat-intersectional-perspectives-and-inclusive-designs-in-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/reading-book-diversifying-barbie-and-mortal-kombat-intersectional-perspectives-and-inclusive-designs-in-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading &#8211; Book &#8211; Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat: intersectional perspectives and inclusive designs in gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Notes from the book <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Chapter 1: Press F to revolt <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>talk about the fact that gamification compels people to do things, sometimes against what they would do in real life (pg 23), also talks about the phenomenon of &#8216;grinding&#8217; and how it can relate to the labour of repetitive tasks in the real world. Games motivate behaviour&#8230; <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They discuss the way that online trolling and activism can be gamified and how it&#8217;s real world impact can be minimised by the confusion of the real\/ not real situations created by virtual environments <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Chapter 2: Putting our hearts into it <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>&#8220;Grieving, the purposeful use of digital affordances to destroy another user&#8217;s pleasure or freedom of movement, is a perennial practice, and women, people of colour and sexual minorities are targeted more than others&#8221; (p35)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interesting terms: \n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Negative: white knight, social justice warriors (SJWs)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Digital zinester <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Chapter 7: Gaming Masculinity <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li>They did a small study of young men talking about their gaming experiences <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>They commented on the fact that men from majority identities (white, cis gendered) never described these identities in their conversations about their game playing <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This fits with broader discussions about ways that identities can be active and hidden to those who are experiencing them and this presents a challenge for me in the design of the game as men may not want to think of their gender as a characteristic that needs unpicking or further consideration <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Reflections and what next <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I am surprised at how under-investigated some of these ideas seem. I need to find time to investigate some of the theories about gender and gaming more. In particular I need to find ways to involve men the the conversation about gaming and gender as they may not think that this is an interesting conversation to be part of. I might be able to take learning from other disciplines about this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Reference <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Kafai, Y.B., Richard, G.T. and Tynes, B.M. (2016).&nbsp;<em>Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat : intersectional perspectives and inclusive designs in gaming<\/em>. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University, Etc Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">\u200c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes from the book Chapter 1: Press F to revolt Chapter 2: Putting our hearts into it Chapter 7: Gaming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-learningjourneys","category-reading"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-7780086-7780086-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-7780086-7780086-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-7780086-7780086-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-7780086-7780086-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-7780086-7780086-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-7780086-7780086-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/04\/pexels-photo-7780086-7780086-2048x1365.jpg",2048,1365,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"kb4n24","author_link":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/author\/kb4n24\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Notes from the book Chapter 1: Press F to revolt Chapter 2: Putting our hearts into it Chapter 7: Gaming&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1528,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/1528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsa-creativetechnologies.uk\/kb4n24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}