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Spring 2021 #OSSTA Lecture: A.M. Darke
Representation Matters: On Black Virtuality and Being Included

I want­ed to talk specif­i­cal­ly about visu­al rep­re­sen­ta­tion and inclu­siv­i­ty, and real­ly try­ing to prob­lema­tize the way that we con­ceive of inclu­siv­i­ty as an inher­ent good. This is not a sort of ​“hash­tag rep­re­sen­ta­tion mat­ters” talk, it is a talk that’s think­ing about you know, mat­ters around rep­re­sen­ta­tion and how to do that in a way that is non-instrumentalizing and non-exploitative.

Four Myths of Women and Online Gaming

I’m a pro­fes­sor here in com­par­a­tive media stud­ies and I’m codi­rec­tor of an orga­ni­za­tion called AnyKey which I’ll tell you a lit­tle bit about today. We launched 2016 with the help of Intel and ESL. We’re an orga­ni­za­tion ded­i­cat­ed to fair­ness, equi­ty, and inclu­siv­i­ty in gam­ing and in par­tic­u­lar esports.

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