Calendars:Networked Media Calendar/Networked Media Calendar/08-02-2022 -Event 2
XPUB1: 11:00 - Special Issue #17 with Lídia Pereira in the large project space WH 4.316- 4.320
From gold farming to Gamergate and the alt-right
Reading:
"Smart Play: Social Stereotypes, Identity Building, and Counter Narratives of Gold Farmers in China" by Zixue Tai and Fengbin Hu in Woke Gaming (ed. Kishonna Gray and David Leonard) "Steve Bannon Saw the ‘Monster Power’ of Angry Gamers While Farming Gold in World of Warcraft" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/steve-bannon-world-of-warcraft-gold-farming.html "Ctrl-Alt-Del: GamerGate as a precursor to the rise of the alt-right" by Kirstin MS Bezio