This morning I am mainly questioning my life choices. I just received this through the post: What’s inside? Why, a statue to celebrate the fact I have been an unbroken subscriber to World of Warcraft for a decade: He’…
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A collection of 4 posts
Understanding chan culture, the birthplace of GamerGate
Boing Boing has published a fascinating exploration of chan culture – the society of “anons” that congregate around 4chan and its spinoffs – and the problems created when it clashes with, say, Twitter culture, as it did at the height of GamerGate:…
Social media, data journalism and #gamergate
I thought that yesterday’s brief post on #gamergate would be all I had to say on the subject – but two really interesting posts caught my attention, that I want to bring to yours. First up, some serious data work.…
Obligatory #gamergate post
Seriously abbreviated version of the #gamergate mess: A bunch of predominantly male gamers are using “concerns about the ethics of games journalism” as a shield for a series of deeply misogynistic attacks on prominent women developers, critics and even celebrities.…