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Serious Question to DiGRA: Have you Ever been through the Peer Review Process From my interactions with DiGRA members and from their statements and apparent offense take to their ideas being picked apart i seems clear to me that you have no I'm aware of what the peer review process involves and it's pretty much identical to what Sargon is doing to your work. l've seen it. It's like being thrown to the wolves. The purpose of peer review is to take your ideas apart and look for any weakness, contraction, oversight or mistake. If you think Sargon and a group of critically thinking gamers is harsh, i seriously doubt you have the intellectual grit for the rigors peer review process. Peer Review is a systematic attempt to discredit your ideas to test their validity and merit and out of that the good ideas will be kept and the faulty ones savaged by a group of your peers That. Is. THE. POINT. If you are offended by people trying to harshly critique your ideas and conclusions you don't belong in academia. Full stop. It's standard practice. If you don't want your often postmodern conjecture to be proven wrong, don't write it and try and pass it off as legitimate research and academic canon. You hate peer review because your ideas lack the merit to stand up to such a test and your horror at someone trying to counter your work is frankly anti intellectual. Your ideas inform people but they have not been properly tested. They led legitimacy to ideas that games are harmful and cause sexism and violence spouted recently in the media. Ideas and studdies that HAVE gone through peer review before and been found bankrupt. Ideas are tested in the fires of debate and discourse. That is the way science and the purist of fact and reason has worked since antiquity. I've said it before: if you tried these methods and ideas in hard science you would find yourselves out on the street in minutes. The fact people get paid to sit back and tell people who peer review is "slowing them down" boggles my mind. As far as I'm concerned your research positions and jobs don't have a right to exist based on the level and quality of output you have produced. It is shockingly woeful Signed. Pretty much every STEM field Reply . A Report Post

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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"If you are offended by people trying to harshly critique your ideas and conclusions, you don't belong in academia. Full stop."
…then where WOULD a person like that belong? I ask because I myself have been struggling for years to figure out where I "belong".

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Not in defense of DiGRA but from what I've heard DARPA will literally throw money at basically anything no matter how practical or useful it may seem simply because they never know when they might stumble upon something useful and they've been doing that long before Obama showed up.

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