>>308863 I haven't been keeping up with the stuff diggers find out for a long time, what is HASTAC exactly? (in layman's terms pls)

>>308865 It's an academic organization that we've seen in a few previous digs, particularly the DMLHub where McIntosh showed up.

Here's another coincidence. Arnelle Schlesinger of HASTAC called for a feminist programming language that rejects the concept of logic. Some jokers created C+= to ridicule the concept, and their repository was banned from Github, Bitbucket, and Google Code. /r/programming and Hacker News were part of the coverup. https://archive.is/GJKR7 http://gamergate.wikia.com/wiki/C+=

I'm starting to think that some of these digging ops are D&C/falseflag traps. Every couple of days, some anon posts a wall of text with no specific leads or explanation. A flood of digging ops is basically useless, because digging works mainly when a crew of anons works together, but when new digging ops get added before old ones return any results, it's just incentive to drop what you're doing in favor of the latest flavor of the hour. I think if you want to propose a digging op, it should either be tied to some other on-going op, or you need to show proof that there's something worth digging for.

>>308987 >I'm starting to think that some of these digging ops are D&C/falseflag traps. Please recalibrate your shill detector; we DO have daily D&C/falseflag/sliding threads posted daily by autistic /GGR/etards (seriously, look at all the anchored threads on the catalog), but this isn't one of them. This is someone throwing out an idea to see if anyone wants to help: I.E. brainstorming or creating happenings. >I think if you want to propose a digging op, it should either be tied to some other on-going op, or you need to show proof that there's something worth digging for. In a leaderless mass like /GG/ not all OPs start the same way, or can be made to fit a formula or plan; sometimes OPs just HAPPEN when a Leader throws out an idea formed during a happening or from something mentioned in an unrelated thread, then a new thread is started, others see a need to generate hype, more people start pitching in to help, and thus, a new OP is born.

Here's another coincidence. Sarah Stierch wrote a memorial for Adrianne Wadewitz of HASTAC. http://theculturefeed.com/2014/04/14/remember-adrianne-wadewitz-and-talkin-about-the-wikipedia-gender-gap-on-kcrw/ https://archive.is/OZKbu Stierch / MissVain was protecting Zoe Quinn on Wikipedia before the Zoe Post and was kicked out for undisclosed paid editing. http://www.gamergatewiki.com/index.php/Wikipedia#Origins_of_Zoe_Quinn.27s_Bio_Page As of November of last year, Stierch was a member of the Content Programs Committee of Wikimedia DC. This is after she was supposedly fired for paid editing. https://archive.is/lHIpA

More coincidences: The HASTAC page has the logos of the MacArthur Foundation, the CUNY Graduate Center, Duke University, National Science Foundation, and UCHRI. UCHRI is the organization of HASTAC board member David Theo Goldberg. https://archive.is/EhD0T The Harper ICANN letter includes Katherine Cross of the CUNY Graduate Center and Fiona Barnett of HASTAC and Duke University. https://archive.is/dwMgU Douglas Thomas of USC Annenberg was a member of the HASTAC steering committee from 2006-2008. He was also VP of DiGRA from 2006-2009. https://archive.is/n8S8R

Not exactly juciy or anything, but Tara McPherson is a published author. In 2003 she wrote a book with the all to familer SJW slant. https://www.dukeupress.edu/Reconstructing-Dixie/ Actually got a bit of bio on her, from an ad for a workshop she ran in 2011 for "…humanities/interpretative social sciences PHD's…? Tara McPherson photoTara McPherson teaches courses in new media, television, and popular culture in the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Before arriving at USC, Tara taught literature, film, and popular culture at MIT. Her Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Duke UP, 2003) received the 2004 John G. Cawelti Award for the outstanding book published on American Culture and was a finalist for the Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. She is co-editor of the anthology Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture (Duke UP, 2003) and editor of Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected, part of the MacArthur Foundation series on Digital Media and Learning (MIT Press, 2008.) Her writing has appeared in numerous journals, including Camera Obscura, The Velvet Light Trap, Discourse, and Screen, and in edited anthologies such as Race and Cyberspace, The New Media Handbook, The Visual Culture Reader 2.0, Virtual Publics and Basketball Jones. She is currently co-editing an anthology on digital narrative and politics and working on a book manuscript on the racial epistemologies of new media. Her new media research focuses on issues of convergence, gender, race, and representation, as well as upon the development of new tools and paradigms for digital publishing, learning, and authorship. http://www.fhi.duke.edu/events/tara-mcpherson-workshop Some things that may just be coincidence There's a J.. Miller McPherson who is another sociology proffesor at Duke. http://sociology.duke.edu/people?Gurl=&Uil=1850&subpage=profile There's some inns and hotels advertising for the McPherson/Duke University Medical Center area http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/rdudd-residence-inn-durham-mcpherson-duke-university-medical-center-area/ And a McPherson College that seems to be just straight up Lib Arts. http://www.mcpherson.edu/about/ Is Tara from some old blue blood family of academics or are my paranioa settings to high?

Found McPherson's linkdin. She Went to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 87-96, and Milsaps college from 81-85. It lists 500 plus connections on her page. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tara-mcpherson-1652a05 Fun tidbit:She lists FUNDRAISING as one of her skills.

> Is Tara from some old blue blood family of academics or are my paranioa settings to high? I have found it best to dig with a high paranoia setting and review the information afterwards with low paranoia and high skepticism settings. Asking "could this hypothesis be true?" is a sign that you're doing it right. You will know that you have gotten too paranoid when you start assuming things to be true that your information does not fully support. That's when it's time to throw out what you think you know and to rebuild your knowledge from the evidence that you have collected. Because websites can change or go offline for various reasons, you will want to use https://archive.is/ to save any page that has information that you might want to reference later. You will also want to save the original URL alongside the archive URL in your notes in case the archive goes down. You can also save webpages in the Internet Archive by putting the page URL after https://web.archive.org/save/ but they have been known to delete pages at aGG's request and they will close their results for any domain that uses robots.txt to refuse bot access. The Internet Archive is a good resource for reading historical versions of web pages.

>>309384 Thanks for the advice, Digging Vet.

David Theo Goldberg is author of: * Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993) * A Companion to Gender Studies (2005) (co-editor with Philomena Essed and Audrey Kobayashi) * The Global Reach of Raceless States, published in The Globalization of Racism (2006) * Crowd Control, published in Crowds (2006) * Sites of Race: In Conversations with Susan Searls Goroux (2014) * Are We All Postracial Yet? (2015) The Globalization of Racism is a compilation edited by Donaldo Macedo and Panayota Gounari as part of Macedo's Series of Critical Narrative. Other books in the series includes: * The Hegemony of English, by Donald Maceo, Bessie Dendrinos, and Panayota Gounari * Letters from Lexington, by Noam Chomsky * Pedagogy of Indignation, by Paulo Freire * Howard Zinn on Democratic Education * How Children Learn, by Terese Fayden * Science, Truth, and Ideology by Stanley Aronowitz * Pedagogy of Dreaming by Paulo Freire * Dear Paolo: Letters from Teachers by Sonia Nieto The third essay in the book is written by Edward Said. The seventh essay is "Zionism as a Racist Ideology" by Kathleen Christison and Bill Christison. Goldberg's essay is titled The Global Reach of Raceless States and it is full of SJW bullshit. The overall tone of the essay is that not being racist is a form of racism as extreme as the Nazis and must be destroyed by being openly racist against Europeans. Here is a summary: p.45 Describes Brazil's "racial democracy" as "raced racelessness". Describes racism as a solely European construct. p.46 Defines "racial historicism" as the belief that non-Europeans are "historically immature or less developed" socially rather than biologically. Put another way, "historicism" blames quirks of history, geography, and random chance for the fact that non-Europeans did not step out of the Dark Ages as early as Europe did. Describes the establishment of equality under the law as "infuriating subtleties of a legally fashioned racial order" p.47 Accuses historicists of "the denial of the effects of racial significance". p.48 Lists "Israel/Palestine" and "contemporary urban Britain" under the Labour Party as examples of racist states seeking to "maintain white privilege and power". Defines "racelessness" as including both the equal treatment of all people and the proposal to genocide all nonwhites. p.49 Describes historicism (equality) as white supremacist. Describes racelessness as leading to a global government by either Nazis or the IMF. Repeats the phrase "money whitens". Names the Bill Cosby show as an example of "the redefinition of race through class mobility". Blames racial equality for unsustainable "global capitalism". p.50 Again accuses Israel of "segregation" and "apartheid". p.51 Redefines historism (equality) as a form of "deflection" used by racists.

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Describes WWII as a competition between equally racist regimes in "the Aryan Reich and Anglo-American capital". p.53 Describes color-blindness as a tool of white supremacy. p.56 Criticizes South Africa's Truth And Reconciliation Committee for failing to investigate "widespread everyday racist expression" among the general white population. Blames South Africa's "state racist formation" for all racism in the general white population, as if they did not feed back on each other. p.58 Describes "the socially dominant conservative, liberal and corporate versions of multiculturalism" as having "extended the effects of racelessness", by which Goldberg means racism. Describes the existence of television advertisements as equal to Australia's forcible suppression of aboriginal culture. Describes "color-blindness and racial democracy" as "fashioned explicitly as forms of political and social evasion". p.59 Explicitly stands against "a standard of justice protective of individual rights and not group results", calling this "race blindness" and "raceless racism". p.64 Closes by blaming the racism of the "raceless state" for all wars, organized crime, and economic differences between different parts of the world, and calls this "globalization's will to the power of racelessness". So if you are not racist, you are a racist and a Nazi. Got that?

Intel declared war again. From what looks like a press release on Engadget: https://archive.is/XCqwW > Intel is taking its fight against GamerGate even further (…) > To that end, on Thursday Intel is joining with Vox Media (The Verge, Polygon) and Recode, specifically, along with Lady Gaga's Born This Way foundation to create an industry-wide initiative to fight online harassment. I start searching for info and guess what URL comes up. http://www.hastac.org/documents/kinder-braver-world-project-research-series https://archive.is/0Gbw7 > The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is pleased to announce the publication of eight new papers in The Kinder & Braver World Project: Research Series (danah boyd, John Palfrey, and Dena Sacco, editors) as part of its collaboration with the Born This Way Foundation (BTWF), and generously supported by the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. > The eight new papers focus on "The Role of Youth Organizations and Youth Movements for Social Change" (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/8090), and were selected among submissions from a call for papers that the Berkman Center put out in June 2012.

>>308863 Newbie question about digging. Are we looking for anything specific?or just keep looking till something interesting pops up?

>>311746 > Are we looking for anything specific?or just keep looking till something interesting pops up? Mostly the latter. Most digs start from a specific action, look into everyone involved, and look for connections to other people who have come up in previous digs. HASTAC has appeared in several digs so it's probably worth looking into. In this thread we've connected them to Berkman, C+=, Feminist Frequency, paid political shilling on Wikipedia, and the aGG theme that not being racist is racist. Let's see what else we can find.

>>309367 > Douglas Thomas of USC Annenberg was a member of the HASTAC steering committee from 2006-2008. He was also VP of DiGRA from 2006-2009. > https://archive.is/n8S8R John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas co-wrote The Gamer Disposition in 2008. > Each generation of games begets a new generation of participants who develop what we call the gamer disposition. It's exactly the disposition you should want in your workforce. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2008/02/the_gamer_disposition.html https://archive.is/a2Sp So some very pro-gamer attitudes were held by someone this deep into DiGRA and HASTAC in 2008. What changed within these organizations? Thomas also covered Kevin Mitnick for Wired back in 1999. http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/08/21322 https://archive.is/wxqgV

A team at USC Annenberg released a paper claiming that Hollywood is unfriendly to gays. https://archive.is/VJZBy > In one of the most exhaustive and damning reports on diversity in Hollywood, a new study finds that the films and television produced by major media companies are "whitewashed," and that an "epidemic of invisibility" runs top to bottom through the industry for women, minorities and LGBT people. > A study to be released Monday by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism offers one of the most wide-ranging examinations of the film and television industries, including a pointed "inclusivity index" of 10 major media companies — from Disney to Netflix — that gives a failing grade to every movie studio and most TV makers. Hey look it's this bullshit: > "The prequel to OscarsSoWhite is HollywoodSoWhite," said Stacy L. Smith, a USC professor and one of the study's authors The government is pressure on the industry. > Following a request made in May by the American Civil Liberties Union (which cited previous USC studies, as well as those by UCLA and the Directors Guild in claiming women have been "systematically excluded" from directing jobs), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last year began investigating gender discrimination in Hollywood.

>>317154 > But some of the study's most troubling finds are simply absences. Roughly 50 percent of the examined content didn't feature one Asian or Asian-American character; 20 percent didn't include one black character. Researchers argue for change beyond "tokenism," including making target goals public and creating a system of checks and balances in storytelling decisions. >"People are still erased. It's 2016 and it's time for a change," said Smith. "We've laid out concrete actionable steps because we don't want to do this again in 10 years." >The 'It's 2016' meme Here you have the report: http://annenberg.usc.edu/pages/~/media/MDSCI/CARDReport%20FINAL%2022216.ashx The measures proposed by the study. >Decide on target inclusion goals. Make these public and transparent to allow for external accountability. >Recognize and alter stereotypical thinking and imagine counter-stereotypical examples before making a hiring decision or finalizing a script. >Create checks and balances in the review of qualifications and storytelling decisions by implementing a system that requires careful processing to override cognitive biases. >Build inclusive consideration lists for writers and directors by ensuring they contain 50% women and 38% people of color. >Counter mythologizing in decision-making with evidence, especially related to the financial performance of films with female or underrepresented leads and/or directors. >Continue to monitor progress. As with the CARD study, evaluation not only demonstrates where improvement is still needed, but where achievement has occurred. I still have to give a read and scrutinize the report. I suggest others do too to find any possibles loaded affirmations and failures. Despite that i agree with the premise of having a diverse cast, the proposal of goals to be imposed by any external organism sound to me like the requirements to keep up with an ideology. Of course, having more diverse cast could be achieved with informed public discussions with different points of view based on evidence, but we don't have time for that right?

>>312807 >>312807 >So some very pro-gamer attitudes were held by someone this deep into DiGRA and HASTAC in 2008. What changed within these organizations? Maybe they just got old and entrenched? Disconnected from the common gamer?

>>312807 >>317274 Don't be naive. These are the folks pushing gamification and casual games in order to hook every normalfag on vidya. >> Each generation of games begets a new generation of participants who develop what we call the gamer disposition. It's exactly the disposition you should want in your workforce. Aka people who follow directions, work with set rules, memorize and internalize inane shit and then apply it in their work. People who are happy to accomplish inane goals. If you think about it devoted gamers are mentally and emotionally connected to the software they are engaged with almost to the point of cyborgization, so enveloped in the VR. These people simply said gamers were good back then because they were referring to video game consumer behavior as it could be exploited for greater social control. Fast forward to "gamers are dead". In this instance "gamer" is a loaded term to imply dweeb //male// hardcore gamers. They want this version of the "gamer" to die so that video gaming is for everyone and we are all playing the same shitty indoctrination games in school and elsewhere. It's a language cup game. Read about JSB and you can come to your own conclusions. wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seely_Brown#Major_positions_and_roles

>>317296 Is this part of the Common Core theory again? I admit, games would be good to sell educational tools, but need more info on Microsuck.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Research_on_Learning >Institute for Research on Learning (IRL) in Palo Alto, California was co-founded by John Seely Brown, then chief research scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center >A number of key educational projects and research staff were transferred into WestEd, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research, development, and service agency which also worked with education and other communities throughout the United States and abroad. >Gender Re-Structuring in Preadolescence: Learning, Identity and Diversity >Adapting Practice acrss Country and Cultural Boundaries >Institute for Women & Technology

>>317300 Meant to reply to >>317297 Common Core and Microsoft are the tip of an iceberg. Look through that wiki page and the names of the companies.

>>317300 >WestEd Why does that sound so familiar?

>>317495 > Why does that sound so familiar? Kyle Orland's father Martin Orland worked for them as their director of evaluation and policy research. https://archive.is/pIqMk Kyle Orland ran the GameJournoPros mailing list. https://archive.is/nq4vD

>>317154 > A team at USC Annenberg released a paper claiming that Hollywood is unfriendly to gays. https://archive.is/VJZBy > (and the ACLU and EEOC are shaking down the industry) The group behind the report is funded by See Jane, a project of the Geena Davis Institute http://www.womensmediacenter.com/author/profile/stacy-l.-smith-and-marc-choueiti https://archive.is/sTnKP https://www.ncwit.org/profile/stacy-smith https://archive.is/eJks6 Geena Davis Institute CEO Madeline Di Nonno is a close friend of CBS Entertainment chair Nina Tassler http://www.bu.edu/cas/files/2015/01/THR_WIE_BUAlumni_44A.pdf Di Nonno was previously CEO of On The Scene Productions http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=28468080 https://archive.is/Q51FQ http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/people.asp?privcapId=28468080 https://archive.is/2R1RP * Ms. Madeline Di Nonno - Chief Executive Officer and President * Ms. Sally Jewett - Co-founder * Ms. Stacie Hunt - Co-founder * David Woodward - Board member * Jeffrey D. Lamb - Board member Di Nonno joined OTSP in 2008 http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2008-06/11051629-on-the-scene-productions-lands-new-ceo-004.htm https://archive.is/emnmQ Before OSTP, Di Nonno was head of marketing for Echo Bridge Home Entertainment. http://variety.com/2005/digital/features/di-nonno-joins-echo-bridge-1117932976/ https://archive.is/XCH4I On The Scene Productions was already failing and had a bad reputation before Di Nonno arrived. They had a reputation of not paying their bills. http://www.b-roll.net/forum/showthread.php?t=22245 https://archive.is/GcrdP Sourcewatch describes OSTP as "Covert propaganda" and "Fake TV news" since 2006 http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/On_the_Scene_Productions https://archive.is/MaGPf One of their PR gimmicks in 2004 was giving Puff Daddy a diamond-encrusted iPod. http://www.engadget.com/2004/08/30/engadget-exclusive-sean-p-diddy-combss-custom-diamond-ipod/ https://archive.is/if3Om

In 2006 OTSP was acquired by a group called Socius Capital. It was the first investment listed on the group's website. https://web.archive.org/web/20080218013620/http://yournewpartner.com./Investments.html https://archive.is/oy9u5 Members: https://archive.is/bf9NR * David Mead - Strategic Planning (Strategy development, financial engineering, M&A, value enhancement), Operations Management (Global sourcing, lean manufacturing) * J Brian Searles - Finance, Control and Information Systems (Accounting, MIS, budgeting), Software, Consulting * Mike Cohn - Family Planning (Estate planning, generational transitions) * Laura Carabello - Sales & Marketing (Sales force management, marketing effectiveness, partnering) * Bill Richardson - Organization Development (Management assessment, succession planning, recruiting, training) * John Engs - Fleet services/leasing A critic calls Socius a "toxic investor" and claims that the real owners are felons named Michael S. Wachs, Terren S. Peizer, and Richard Josephberg http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=69269652 (archive didn't save it) Wachs ran CEOCast which promoted penny stocks, possibly a pump and dump scam http://www.barrons.com/articles/SB116320479018920387?mod=seekingalpha https://archive.is/5huSO These might be two different companies with the name Socius Capital. It is not clear.

SmartBrief S.H.E. Media aims to empower women in marketing Speakers at the NYC event include: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, PhD, United Nations under-secretary-general and executive director of UN Women, and Stacy Smith, PhD, an associate professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/42098 https://archive.is/pW5uX Guess who went to the U.N. with Quinn and Sarkeesian. >>298074 The Working Group on Gender is co-chaired by UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and UNDP Administrator Helen Clark. Guest speakers at the LWs' session were: https://archive.is/fmoiZ * Irina Bokova, Director-General, UNESCO * Doreen Bogdan of ITU * Baroness Beeban Kidron, U.K. filmmaker * Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn * Madeline di Nonno, CEO of the Geena Davis Institute for Gender & Media * Roberta Cocco of Microsoft Europe

The Annenberg School has connections. https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/127406 https://archive.is/l0vAL Dear Mr. Lynton: I would like to invite you to an intimate informal dinner I am hosting for Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler, next Tuesday February 11th. Please see the attached invitation. I hope you can make it! Sincerely, Ernest J. Wilson III Dean Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication Professor of Political Science USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/130794 https://archive.is/gEIJF From: Geoffrey Cowan Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 3:53 PM To: Michael Lynton Subject: A Special Request from Sunnylands On January 19-21, Sunnylands will host a U.S. – China Track II retreat that will include participation by current and former government and military leaders from both countries… Here is a partial list of those who, in addition to Secretary Bill Perry, will be on the American Delegation: * Admiral Dennis (Denny) Blair, Director of National Intelligence (2009-2010); Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (1999-2002) * Kurt M. Campbell, Founding Partner, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of The Asia Group, LLC. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2009 to 2013). * Ashton Carter, United States Deputy Secretary of Defense, 2011 through 2013, * Ambassador Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (2009-2011); Lieutenant General, United States Army, Commander of the American-led Coalition forces in Afghanistan (2005-2007). Previously Director for Strategic Planning and Policy for U.S. Pacific Command; Assistant Army and Defense Attaché at the United States Embassy in Beijing, China; Senior Country Director for China, Office of the Secretary of Defense. * Thomas Fingar, Oksenberg-Rohlen Distinguished Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (2005-2008); director of the Office of Analysis for East Asia and the Pacific (1989–1994), and chief of the China Division (1986–1989). And * John Huntsman, former US Ambassador to China The delegation from China will be equally impressive. Geoffrey Cowan President, The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands University Professor and Annenberg Family Chair in Communication Leadership University of Southern California

>>317560 that's fucking connected, bumpin

>>317560 USC annenberg… I know some people in that school. I just wanted fucking decent video games

Link between David Theo Goldberg and Celia Pearce http://www.ics.uci.edu/%7Ewscacchi/Presentations/GameLab/UCGameLab-2006.ppt Collaboration Infrastructures for GCT Robert Nideffer and Walt Scacchi Humanities Research Institute & GCTL Winter 2006 Slide 5 UCI Game Lab People (Faculty) * Studio Art: Robert Nideffer (Director), Antoinette LaFarge * Computer Science: Paul Dourish, Magda El Zarki, Dan Frost, Bonnie Nardi, Andre van der Hoek * Engineering: Tara Hutchinson, Falko Kuester, Joerg Meyer * Arts, Computation, Engineering: Beatriz de Costa, Simon Penny, Bill Tomlinson * Institute Software Research: Celia Pearce, Walt Scacchi (Research Director), * Others: Tom Boellstorf (Anthropology), Christopher Dobrian (Music), Peter Krappe (Humanities/Film Studies), Charlie Zender (Earth Systems Science) Slide 14 During Winter of 2006 we initiatived a radical "re-tooling" of the portal for the Game Culture and Technology Lab. This was done in anticipation of a Spring 2006 residency at the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) entitled "Collaboration Infrastructures for Game Culture and Technology" - made possible by Director David Goldberg and Deputy Director Kevin Franklin. The goal is to critically reflect on our use of the tools as we develop and use them in relation to our creative projects. The residency is being convened by GCTL director Robert Nideffer, and co-organized along with Walt Scacchi, the GCTL Associate Director of Research Ideally what we produce will become a useful resource for the international community interested in reading, writing, viewing, analyzing, and producing media relevant to the rapidly expanding field of "Game Studies."

This is back in the news again: >>317557 > A team at USC Annenberg released a paper claiming that Hollywood is unfriendly to gays. https://archive.is/VJZBy That paper is being used to justify funding a project to give Hollywood diversity scorecards. This is going to the engineering department so maybe we'll get a laugh when Tay 2.0 tells them there are too many Jews. http://fusion.net/story/342226/google-algorithm-women-hollywood/ https://archive.is/vzgfF This Drinkwater guy also did work for Sarah Palin so it looks like he is just PR, nonpartisan. https://archive.is/06LdM They're connected to the new Bentonville Film Festival which is related to the Walmart Foundation. https://archive.is/PGFuu We have Arkansas and Walmart. There is a Clinton connection, I can guarantee that without looking. The question is whether it will be meaningful.