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Trans-forming Videogames with Dr. Madison Schmalzer
No full textPresented by the Humanities and Technoscience Lab at Purdue University. Videogames are powerful tools for imagining new futures. In this talk, Madison Schmalzer explores the potential for articulating and embodying trans subjectivities through "trans play," in particular focusing on speedrunning: the practice of playing videogames as fast as possible. She will show how the communal and individual labor that produces speedrunning also indexes desires and orientations towards technology that center social and technological glitches which have the power to short circuit the technologies around us, allowing for new technological subjectivities to unfold.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/192765/1/Trans Forming Video Games Captioned.mp4http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/192765/2/Trans-forming Videogames with Dr. Madison Schmalzer.txtc4321027-eaa6-44f5-a298-a6880ec181d5Description of Trans Forming Video Games Captioned.mp4 : Event VideoDescription of Trans-forming Videogames with Dr. Madison Schmalzer.txt : TranscriptSEL
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Playing in Postmortem: Link Rot, Memory Decay, and Haunting Archives at the End of the World
No full textAnna Anthropy’s Queers in Love at the End of the World (2013) is one of the most celebrated games from the “queer games scene” of the early 2010s (Keogh, 2013). Made in Twine, Queers in Love depicts the last moments between two lovers at, appropriately, the end of the world. Scholars have analyzed the game’s mechanics and narrative, describing it as a poignant representation of queer life amongst inevitable death (Lo, 2017; Ruberg, 2017; Salter & Moulthrop, 2021). But the game is not what we remember. No game ever is. Even one as beloved and theorized has died, just as the fictional lovers have.
This talk emerges from my discovery of a glitch that adds extra, refreshed clocks, irrevocably shifting the game’s possibilities. A narrative about precious moments before the apocalypse becomes about hanging on, and how these moments sour when we hold too tightly. Instead of the game haunting us when we step away, we haunt the game, lingering in its passages. I propose a trans understanding of games that acknowledges their perpetual becoming, of the ways that play always changes games, and of the need to accept (and even celebrate) this change.
In exploring this glitch I found other ways the game changed since its creation. I perform an autopsy, moving through the ephemeral traces of life that mark its shifting archival body, which become interwoven into accounts of my experiences, snippets of saved IRC chats, Discord messages buried under ever-refreshing feeds, and posts on defunct blogs. The code remains the same, but links rot, social media accounts change hands, and thus the game connects to a surprising collection of intertextual documents. Through this excavation I ask who is left behind in imaginings of technological stability? How do trans designers and players haunt games? And how might we care for games and those that make them by allowing them to change?
References
Anthropy, Anna (2013) “Queers in Love at the End of the World,” Web.
Keogh, Brendan (2013) “Just Making Things and Being Alive About It,” Polygon.
Lo, Claudia (2017) “Everything is Wiped Away: Queer Temporality in Queers in Love at the End of the World,” Camera Obscura, 32(2).
Ruberg, Bo (2017) “Permalife: Video Games and the Queerness of Living,” Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, 9(2).
Salter, Anastasia & Stephen Moulthrop (2021) Twining: Critical and Creative Approaches to Hypertext Narratives, Amherst College Press
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
“I TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND CAME OUT AS GC”: EXCAVATING GENDER CRITICAL INFORMATION LITERACY PRACTICES AND ANTI-TRANS RADICALIZATION ON OVARIT AND MUMSNET
No full textIn 2020, the subreddit r/GenderCritical—one of the most active “gender critical” (GC) spaces on Reddit—was banned by the platform for promoting hateful, transphobic conduct. Following the closure of r/GenderCritical (and subsequent banning of dozens of high-profile, transphobic subreddits including r/ActualWomen, r/GenderCriticalSociety, and r/truelesbians), GC users—especially those in North America and Western Europe—migrated to more hidden, invite-only spaces. These included Discord servers as well as (much like alt-right alternative platforms Parler and Truth Social) platforms run by GCs themselves: Spinster.xyz, the short-lived Giggle app, subforums on Mumsnet, and Ovarit—an invite-only forum which imitates Reddit’s architecture launched by former moderators of r/GenderCritical. While we might celebrate the closure of openly hateful communities on major social platforms, a crucial side-effect of the GC dispersal is that their activity has become (following patterns in reactionary political movements online more broadly) increasingly shrouded and insular. In this project, we provide an overview of the current landscape of GC activity on social media as it exists in the post-r/GenderCritical era. We describe how users are “peaked” (the GC equivalent of “redpilled”) and pipelined from algorithmic media platforms into insular and extremist spaces such as Ovarit, Mumsnet, and Discord. We then examine discourse within two popular GC forums, Ovarit and Mumsnet (specifically: Mumsnet’s “Feminism: Sex & gender” board), to identify how these groups circulate disinformation, perform political mythmaking, and construct and reinscribe reactionary identities in the context of GC ideology and extremism
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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