Posts Tagged 'Research'

(Crowd)Funding Like a Geek
Anthropology, Games / gaming, Study of geek culture

(Crowd)Funding Like a Geek

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After I wrote a post about “vexing” and then disappearing for six months, you could be forgiven for thinking that by “vexing” I mean “troll the blog by never posting.” My absence was not prompted by the lulz, however, but by needing to focus all of my attention on fieldwork for my dissertation on tabletop role-playing games. I still have some fieldwork left to do, but have finally been able to come up for air and share some of how my research has been going and how that relates to geek anthropology.

”Keep Your Politics Out of My Video Games”
Anthropology, Games / gaming, Online communities, Study of geek culture

”Keep Your Politics Out of My Video Games”

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Errant Signal released a wonderful video yesterday about politics in video games and the importance of engaging in critical discourse about them.

Title ”Keep Your Politics Out of My Video Games”, the video opens with a description of gamers’ attitudes towards critical discussions: on one hand, they want video games to be taken seriously and respected. They want their gaming knowledge and skills to be acknowledged. On the other hand, they can react rather aggressively to any form of critical analysis of, say, the representations of ethnic groups, women, LGBT or gender roles in games.

So, you want to get a master’s degree?
Advice for students

So, you want to get a master’s degree?

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You’re interested in a topic and you’d like to start a master’s degree to be able to explore it. Great! But where to begin?

Before you start filling out applications for universities, there are two very important things you need to do, the first of which I’ll address today and the second in a coming post.

1. You need to clarify what you’ll work on;

2. Decide whom you want to work with.