The Life Well Played – Spot Check 23
by NICK MIZER Spot Check returns! In this episode I talk about the role of conventions in gaming culture, the…
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Violence and Victimization: Misogyny in Geek Culture (And Everywhere Else)
By Emma Louise Backe “Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.” –Margaret…
New Journal Alert: Analog Game Studies
Over the past year I’ve been learning some great lessons about interdisciplinarity through conversations with a great group of scholars interested in analog games (centrally, but not solely, RPGs). These conversations started informally at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association, and have evolved into a new online journal, Analog Game Studies.
Magic & Morphemes: A Conversation with Donna Jo Napoli
By Emma Louise Backe Donna Jo Napoli is a professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, and the acclaimed…
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Witches and Modern Women
By Emma Louise Backe Two weeks ago, I published a piece on modern monsters and their meanings within contemporary pop…
The Geek Anthropologist 