Tag Archives: Representation
A Severed Prosthetic Memory by NBA 2K14
The discourse of representation, stereotypes, and racism surrounding video games is fraught, and quite frankly not at all progressive. During “black history month,” I took notice to the number of my Facebook feeds that posted the obligatory Black History Month topics, … Continue reading
Posted in Criticism, Laquana Cooke
Tagged Alison Landsberg, and racism, Bill Russell, black history, black history month, Celtics, Chuck Cooper, Civil Rights Movement, Doris Burke, game criticism, Game design, Game Mechanics, Gender, Hall of Fame, Harlan, inequalities, Jerry West, Kellogg, Lakers, MLK, NBA, nba 2k, nba 2k14, NBA Playoffs, prejudices, prosthetic memory, ps3, Representation, stereotypes, Steve Kerr, Video Game History, Video games, Wilt Chamberlain, Xbox One
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Always in Alpha Podcast, Ep. 1: Twitch Plays Pokemon and Genre
We’ve recorded a podcast! Laquana Cooke, Nick Hanford, Candice Lanius, and myself sat down at Finnbar’s, our local pub last week. This is the first of two or three podcasts that came out of that conversation. Laquana had to leave … Continue reading
Posted in Candice Lanius, Criticism, Gaines Hubbell, Laquana Cooke, Nick Hanford, Podcasts
Tagged Aardse, audience, Audience expectation, Black identity, Borderlands 2, Candice Lanius, Diablo 3, Freud, Gaines Hubbell, Gender, Genre, Institution, Kenneth Burke, Kill Screen, Laquana Cooke, Nick Hanford, Play, Players, Podcast, Pokemon, Polygon, Race, Representation, Text, Twitch, Twitch Plays, Twitch Plays Pokemon, Twitch Plays Pokemon Plays Tetris, Uncanny, Uncanny Valley
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