FCJ-199 Modelling Systemic Racism: Mobilising the Dynamics of Race and Games in Everyday Racism
This article is concerned with attempts to pose videogames as solutions to systemic racism. The mobile app, Everyday Racism, is one such game. Its method is to directly address players as subjects of racism interpellating them as victims of racist language and behaviour within Australian society, im...
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| description | This article is concerned with attempts to pose videogames as solutions to systemic racism. The mobile app, Everyday Racism, is one such game. Its method is to directly address players as subjects of racism interpellating them as victims of racist language and behaviour within Australian society, implicating the impact of racism on mental health and wellbeing. While the game has politically laudable goals, its effectiveness is undermined by several issues themselves attributable to the dynamics of race and games. This paper will spell out those issues by addressing three separate facets of the game: the problematic relationship between the player and their elected avatar; the pedagogic compromises that are made in modelling racism as a game; finally, the superliminal narrative that attempts to transcend the limited diegetic world of the game. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-efa2962f29ca4634883cc60f811ca9802022-12-22T02:42:39ZengOpen Humanities PressFibreculture Journal1449-14432016-03-012710.15307/fcj.27.199.2016FCJ-199 Modelling Systemic Racism: Mobilising the Dynamics of Race and Games in Everyday RacismRobbie Fordyce0Timothy Neale1Tom Apperley2University of MelbourneUniversity of Western SydneyUniversity of New South WalesThis article is concerned with attempts to pose videogames as solutions to systemic racism. The mobile app, Everyday Racism, is one such game. Its method is to directly address players as subjects of racism interpellating them as victims of racist language and behaviour within Australian society, implicating the impact of racism on mental health and wellbeing. While the game has politically laudable goals, its effectiveness is undermined by several issues themselves attributable to the dynamics of race and games. This paper will spell out those issues by addressing three separate facets of the game: the problematic relationship between the player and their elected avatar; the pedagogic compromises that are made in modelling racism as a game; finally, the superliminal narrative that attempts to transcend the limited diegetic world of the game.http://twentyseven.fibreculturejournal.org/2016/03/18/fcj-199-modelling-systemic-racism-mobilising-the-dynamics-of-race-and-games-in-everyday-racism/racismantiracismvideo games |
| spellingShingle | Robbie Fordyce Timothy Neale Tom Apperley FCJ-199 Modelling Systemic Racism: Mobilising the Dynamics of Race and Games in Everyday Racism Fibreculture Journal racism antiracism video games |
| title | FCJ-199 Modelling Systemic Racism: Mobilising the Dynamics of Race and Games in Everyday Racism |
| title_full | FCJ-199 Modelling Systemic Racism: Mobilising the Dynamics of Race and Games in Everyday Racism |
| title_fullStr | FCJ-199 Modelling Systemic Racism: Mobilising the Dynamics of Race and Games in Everyday Racism |
| title_full_unstemmed | FCJ-199 Modelling Systemic Racism: Mobilising the Dynamics of Race and Games in Everyday Racism |
| title_short | FCJ-199 Modelling Systemic Racism: Mobilising the Dynamics of Race and Games in Everyday Racism |
| title_sort | fcj 199 modelling systemic racism mobilising the dynamics of race and games in everyday racism |
| topic | racism antiracism video games |
| url | http://twentyseven.fibreculturejournal.org/2016/03/18/fcj-199-modelling-systemic-racism-mobilising-the-dynamics-of-race-and-games-in-everyday-racism/ |
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