I did an Altavista search for more info on this and one of the links it returned was this one
She's Such a Geek - Geek Feminism Wiki She's Such a Geek is an anthology of essays about female geeks, edited by ... She's Such a Geek Photo Competition at Inkling magazing. Amazon customer reviews ... geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/She's_Such_a_Geek More pages from geekfeminism.wikia.com http://av.rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkt72bXZKxKsAlwlrCqMX;_ylu=X3oDMTBvdmM3bGlxBHBndANhdl93ZWJfcmVzdWx0BHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=128gup4pc/EXP=1249361782/**http%3A//geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/She When I clicked on the link, I got a Yahoo 403 error ie ---------- Yahoo! Forbidden This link is not authorized by Yahoo! If you would like to continue to this link's intended destination at your own risk, click here. --------- Since when does yahoo get to FORBID access to sites? and is the objection to feminist text or to WIKIA? blakkbyrd On 02/08/2009, at 9:11 PM, Aileen Derieg wrote: > On Sunday 02 August 2009 13:00:50 marc garrett wrote: >> We need more women in games. > > On that subject I highly recommend "She's Such a Geek", one of my > favorite > books: http://www.sealpress.com/book.php?isbn=9781580051903 > > Enjoy, > Aileen > >> >> Guardian article. >> >> A new study shows that females are missing from videogames, in >> which 85% >> of the characters are male. Videogame players may be more diverse >> than >> ever, but for game characters the digital realm is still very much a >> white man's world. A study published this week looking at gender, >> race >> and age has found that female and minority characters are severely >> under-represented. >> >> US researchers examined the top 150 games from March 2005 to February >> 2006, including titles such as Doom 3 and Grand Theft Auto: San >> Andreas. >> They discovered that 85% of characters are male, compared to just >> 49% of >> the US population. The figure rises to 90% for player-controlled >> characters. >> >> Black, Hispanic and Native American characters also fail to reflect >> their real-life counterparts, and mainly appear in sports games or >> titles that reinforce racial stereotypes, such as 50 Cent >> Bulletproof. >> Turning to age groups, children and the elderly are almost non- >> existent >> in games, with adult characters making up nearly 87% of the total. >> >> Previous studies have examined questions of representation in >> games, but >> this new research is the most comprehensive so far. The findings also >> take sales data in to account by weighting the most popular games as >> more important, under the assumption that they have a larger effect >> on >> players. >> >> Dmitri Williams led the research, published in the journal New >> Media & >> Society. He suggests that media under-representation can be an >> indicator >> of social inequality. >> >> more... >> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2009/jul/31/videogames-gende >> r-balance >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > -- > In so many words: http://eliot.at > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
