AlterConf Chicago 2015
who it's for
game developers, community managers, diversity and inclusion leads, content creators and editors, open source maintainers, accessibility designers
topics
Contributor Covenant code of conduct; online harassment blocking tools; timing of diverse character placement; representation statistics for games; inspirationally disadvantaged trope in games; randomized avatar defaults; blogging economics and VC funding; caregiver digital estate planning; two-factor authentication for families; public speaking and vulnerability as career tool; accessibility and agency in game design
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| He Doesn't Work Here Anymore | Coraline Ada Ehmke | 20m |
A developer announces a public gender transition, started hormones August 11 2013 10 13 pm, describes suicidal crisis and cites the stark statistic 40% of… | ||
| Blogging, online culture, and institutional inequality | Keidra Chaney | 31m |
Argument claims that VC money and Silicon Valley culture skew who gets funded and paid in digital publishing, citing BuzzFeed $850M valuation, Bustle $27M in… | ||
| The Timing of Diverse Character Placement | Shareef Jackson | 19m |
Claim: the timing of diverse character placement changes immersion. The talk shows concrete examples and evidence: marketing that defaults to white in… | ||
| The Harassment Game: Cyberbullying for Adults | Mikki Kendall | 32m |
Describes concrete mechanics and remedies: that LiveJournal finds 75–85% of trolling comes from ~300 dedicated accounts and that IP blocking worked to stop… | ||
| Getting out of your own way: turning your fears into assets | Sharon Steed | 18m |
Claims that a personal stutter becomes a career asset by turning fear into a signal rather than a defect, and that actively speaking about it (begun about a… | ||
| The Digital Sandwich Generation: Women's roles in ... | Heidi Waterhouse | 20m |
Claims that household digital identity work routinely falls to caregivers and gives concrete techniques: use a password vault (LastPass example) and plan… | ||
| Why we Need Diverse Games | Tanya C Depass | 19m |
A grassroots hashtag #INeedDiverseGames becomes a Tumblr, Twitter account and Facebook page and pushes a concrete claim: game characters are overwhelmingly… | ||
| The Inspirationally Disadvantaged and Other Tropes in Gaming | Lori Watts | 20m |
Games repeatedly reduce illness to tropes and plot devices, claiming representation while giving characters no agency and using gimmicks like Inspirationally… | ||
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