“Gender, Race, and Meritocracy in Organizational Careers” by Emilio Castilla is a report done in 2008 at MIT to explore the literature on merit-based reward systems. Castilla uses huge amounts of data that “empirically establishes the existence of this bias and shows that gender, race, and nationality differences continue to […]
Monthly Archives: January 2013
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If you listen to the podcast you have heard me say that I played the Dead Space 3 demo this past week and that instead of telling you about it, I wanted you to just go out and play it. Hopefully by now you’ve had some time to either play […]
Let me start out by saying that I have the cutest kid in the world (and while the little girl with the test tubes is cute, she is not mine but the rest of the images are of my Peanut). If you have kids I am sure that you think […]
Episode 49: The Choices We Make: The Walking Dead (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we totally spoil TellTale Games’ The Walking Dead (all 5 episodes). We discuss the choices that we made in each episode and work through our own WD issues. We’ve all […]
Sometimes my brain works much like the horrible Bing search engine commercial where people jump from tangential topic to tangential topic based on keywords and loose connections. Today’s post comes from just such an idea jump that I experienced today. It started when a student in my Gender and Technology […]
In the wake of the national debate over whether or not violent video games make players more prone to violence, I wanted to discuss a different, more happy side effect of video games; the bonding effect. Anyone who has played a game can attest that there is a deep social […]
Update 3: After a restart, steam used my “cloud” save to replace my local save. Which deleted all of my progress for the entire day. So my journey ends here for now. I got to episode 3, but am back at the very beginning. So, I’m done. Unless anyone knows […]
Hey everyone, we here at NYMG decided to give you all a special treat this Sunday. Starting at 10am eastern, nymg-er Alex Layne will be playing The Walking Dead from start to finish, complete with video stream, audio updates, and blog reflections. This will be an all day experience, so […]
So, it looks like it bears saying again. Parents should be playing with their children. Not just when they are little and cute and want to play tea party, Legos, or pirate fairy princess, but when they are (pre)pubescent and cranky. When you really start to wonder if they were […]
Women in the game industry, or women as gamers, have been an increasingly popular topic in the media. Just this week, two friends who have nothing to do with gaming sent me articles about women in gaming that they came across in their daily non-game reading. This is a positive […]
Episode 48: And the Award Goes To: Our Best and Worst of 2012 (“Save As” to download or head over to iTunes to subscribe) The episode where we talk about favorite games and biggest disappointments of 2012. We also share our wildest predictions for 2013. Make sure that you bookmark this one […]