Chimeria:Grayscale: an interactive narrative for provoking critical reflection on gender discrimination
<jats:p>Roleplaying has a history of serving diverse aims, including art, entertainment, therapeutic purposes, and political action (Piper 1973; Gygax 1978; Boal 1993; Matthews et al. 2014). This paper presents an interactive narrative called Grayscale that uses roleplaying to provoke critical...
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| author | Harrell, D. Fox Ortiz, Pablo Downs, Peter Wagoner, Maya Carré, Elizabeth Wang, Annie |
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| description | <jats:p>Roleplaying has a history of serving diverse aims, including art, entertainment, therapeutic purposes, and political action (Piper 1973; Gygax 1978; Boal 1993; Matthews et al. 2014). This paper presents an interactive narrative called Grayscale that uses roleplaying to provoke critical reflection through modeling workplace gender discrimination. Grayscale's interface resembles a streamlined email system, constituting what Henry Jenkins has termed an “embedded narrative” since the narration is distributed across elements in the space (e.g. emails, notes, draft messages).</jats:p> |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/135084.22021-11-24T18:59:50Z Chimeria:Grayscale: an interactive narrative for provoking critical reflection on gender discrimination Harrell, D. Fox Ortiz, Pablo Downs, Peter Wagoner, Maya Carré, Elizabeth Wang, Annie MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory <jats:p>Roleplaying has a history of serving diverse aims, including art, entertainment, therapeutic purposes, and political action (Piper 1973; Gygax 1978; Boal 1993; Matthews et al. 2014). This paper presents an interactive narrative called Grayscale that uses roleplaying to provoke critical reflection through modeling workplace gender discrimination. Grayscale's interface resembles a streamlined email system, constituting what Henry Jenkins has termed an “embedded narrative” since the narration is distributed across elements in the space (e.g. emails, notes, draft messages).</jats:p> 2021-11-24T18:59:49Z 2021-10-27T20:10:39Z 2021-11-24T18:59:49Z 2018 2019-10-15T14:52:03Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135084.2 en 10.14195/2182-8830_6-2_15 Matlit Revista do Programa de Doutoramento em Materialidades da Literatura Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/octet-stream Coimbra University Press Coimbra University Press |
| spellingShingle | Harrell, D. Fox Ortiz, Pablo Downs, Peter Wagoner, Maya Carré, Elizabeth Wang, Annie Chimeria:Grayscale: an interactive narrative for provoking critical reflection on gender discrimination |
| title | Chimeria:Grayscale: an interactive narrative for provoking critical reflection on gender discrimination |
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