
Digital Culture
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GamerGate: What is it and why is it rocking the [gaming] world?
Oct 1, 2014 10:00am | by Marie Alcober
If you’ve read any major online publication of late, you’ll have come across the term Gamer Gate — the online war rippling across the video game industry with no end in sight. While much of the fighting has occurred online, documented under the hashtag #GamerGate on platforms like Twitter and Tumblr, many women have felt […]
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Divided No More: The Great Technology Paradox
Jan 24, 2014 4:38pm | by Ramona Pringle
Have we become isolated from each other, splintered from our communities? Is technology – and the siren song of email pings and new message alerts – to blame? The New York Times recently addressed what might be one of the greatest sociology debates of the last decade — and one of the key questions we’re […]