Hi Burcu and all, There is also Charlie Brooker's piece in the Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/20/gamergate-internet-toug... Inge ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Inge Ejbye Sørensen Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in Digital Economy & Culture Centre for Cultural Policy Research Room 410, 13 Professor Square University of Glasgow Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK +44 (0)1413303805 -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Burcu Bakioglu Sent: 23 October 2014 14:38 To: AMPARO LASEN DIAZ Cc: AoiR list Subject: Re: [Air-L] #gamergate links Thanks for the links thus far. Keep it coming and I'll compile all of this in a Google doc per usual and post it for everyone to use... Thanks again! On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:32 AM, AMPARO LASEN DIAZ <alasen@cps.ucm.es> wrote:

Hi Burcu,

There was a discussion on the FemTechNet list abut this last week, here are the links that were posted:

http://deadspin.com/the-future-of-the-culture-wars-is-here-and-its-gam erga-1646145844

(from Richard Lemarchand, Indiecade organizer, former AAA game designer, USC prof)

http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2014/10/stopgamergate2014-th e-internet-has-had-enough-of-gamergate.html

(good summary from cbc)

Natasha Lennard, "The Dangers of Letting Monsters Pass as Internet Trolls"

https://news.vice.com/article/the-danger-of-letting-monsters-pass-as-i nternet-trolls

OLAASM (Occupy Los Angeles/Anti-Social Media) "At the Intersection of Gamergate & Weevgate, Abusers & Their Knowing Apologists"

http://olaasm.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/at-the-intersection-of-gamergat e-weevgate-abusers-their-knowing-apologists/

which is in part a follow-up and response to the responses to the earlier "The Blankest Canvas: On Art, Opportunism, Erasure, and Whiteness"

http://olaasm.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/the-blankest-canvas-on-art-oppo rtunism-erasure-repainting-with-whiteness/

All the best

Amparo Lasén Dpto Sociología I UCM @Amparo www.sociologiaordinaria.com http://ucm.academia.edu/AmparoLasén

2014-10-23 14:54 GMT+02:00 Burcu Bakioglu <bbakiogl@gmail.com>:

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Hi all, I've been asked to give a brief presentation on the #gamergate scandal that erupted last month. I casually read up on it but I want to be a bit more thorough as you can imagine. I was wondering if you would share some of the links you may have come across.

Kind regards.

-- Thanks,

Burcu S. Bakioglu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow in New Media Lawrence University

http://www.palefirer.com

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