Women and videogames: blog tasks
Part 1: Background reading on Gamergate Read this Guardian article on Gamergate 10 years on . Answer the following questions: 1) What was Gamergate? Gamergate was a toxic online harassment campaign starting in 2014, targeting women in the video game industry 2) What is the recent controversy surrounding narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc? Believes that Sweet Baby Inc is secretly forcing game developers to change the bodies, ethnicities and sexualities of video game characters to conform to “woke” ideology. 3) What does the article conclude regarding diversity in videogames? This is part of a broader far right panic about diversity and inclusion that has already resulted in proposed regressive anti-women and anti-woke legislation in the USA and elsewhere. Part 2: Further Feminist Theory: Media Factsheet Use our Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets) or here using your Greenford Google login ....