Evan Lauteria
@elauteria.bsky.social
Assistant Instructional Professor in Sociology | Culture, Race/Gender/Sexuality, and STS | Studying Japanese video game localization in North America
Not to *always* bring up Persona, butttttt… she and Attis are my faves.
January 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Not to *always* bring up Persona, butttttt… she and Attis are my faves.
The freedom to be surveilled constantly, among other similar freedoms… 😞
January 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
The freedom to be surveilled constantly, among other similar freedoms… 😞
Looking ahead: I'm gonna be working toward getting the dissertation, which explores the ideology and mythology of cultural "localization" and the expansion of the Japanese games industry, into book form soon(ish). escholarship.org/uc/item/82w4...
Global Games, Localized Cultures: The Rise of the Japanese Video Games Industry
Author(s): Lauteria, Evan Wilson | Advisor(s): Grindstaff, Laura; Milburn, Colin | Abstract: The video game industry today is widespread and gargantuan, with a player base greater than a quarter of th...
escholarship.org
November 21, 2024 at 7:16 AM
Looking ahead: I'm gonna be working toward getting the dissertation, which explores the ideology and mythology of cultural "localization" and the expansion of the Japanese games industry, into book form soon(ish). escholarship.org/uc/item/82w4...
"Counting Queerness in Games: Trends in LGBTQ Digital Game Representation, 1985‒2005" (2019) w/ @adrishaw.bsky.social et al., based on curatorial work on lgbtqgamearchive.com (thanks, Adrienne, for letting me participate!)
Article here: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
Article here: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
LGBTQ Video Game Archive
A curated/researched collection of information of LGBTQ content in digital games from 1980s-present
lgbtqgamearchive.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:13 AM
"Counting Queerness in Games: Trends in LGBTQ Digital Game Representation, 1985‒2005" (2019) w/ @adrishaw.bsky.social et al., based on curatorial work on lgbtqgamearchive.com (thanks, Adrienne, for letting me participate!)
Article here: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
Article here: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...
"Envisioning Queer Game Studies" in _Queerness in Play_ (2018), edited by Todd Harper, @mblytheadams.bsky.social, and Nicholas Taylor. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Check it out if you want a fun queer reading of ludology's snarkiest argument from early 2000s (or my data on trans rep in games)
Check it out if you want a fun queer reading of ludology's snarkiest argument from early 2000s (or my data on trans rep in games)
Queerness in Play
This volume examines the ways in which queerness—from an understanding of queer as LGBTQ, to lesser covered elements of the spectrum—intersects with gaming. With work on gameplay, design, deployment, ...
link.springer.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:12 AM
"Envisioning Queer Game Studies" in _Queerness in Play_ (2018), edited by Todd Harper, @mblytheadams.bsky.social, and Nicholas Taylor. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Check it out if you want a fun queer reading of ludology's snarkiest argument from early 2000s (or my data on trans rep in games)
Check it out if you want a fun queer reading of ludology's snarkiest argument from early 2000s (or my data on trans rep in games)
(link to the book here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/rated-m-f...)
Rated M for Mature
The word sex has many implications when it is used in connection with video games. As game studies scholars have argued, games are player-driven experiences. Pl…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 21, 2024 at 7:02 AM
(link to the book here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/rated-m-f...)
Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games w/ @profmatthew.bsky.social (2015). Eternally grateful you gave me this opportunity to collaborate, Matthew!
November 21, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games w/ @profmatthew.bsky.social (2015). Eternally grateful you gave me this opportunity to collaborate, Matthew!
"Ga(y)mer Theory: Queer Modding as Resistance" reconstruction.digitalodu.com/Issues/122/L...
(thank you, @burnedprof.bsky.social, for giving me a platform for my first publication back in 2012!)
(thank you, @burnedprof.bsky.social, for giving me a platform for my first publication back in 2012!)
reconstruction.digitalodu.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:58 AM
"Ga(y)mer Theory: Queer Modding as Resistance" reconstruction.digitalodu.com/Issues/122/L...
(thank you, @burnedprof.bsky.social, for giving me a platform for my first publication back in 2012!)
(thank you, @burnedprof.bsky.social, for giving me a platform for my first publication back in 2012!)
Real answer: around this time in the term, I do @jackboxgames.bsky.social in-class—reality TV game “Roomerang” for Soc. of Pop Culture and science pellet distribution simulator “Role Models” for Soc. of Science
November 21, 2024 at 6:46 AM
Real answer: around this time in the term, I do @jackboxgames.bsky.social in-class—reality TV game “Roomerang” for Soc. of Pop Culture and science pellet distribution simulator “Role Models” for Soc. of Science
For your class on emotions and games? Take ‘em outside to play tag! Or hide and seek!
November 21, 2024 at 6:38 AM
For your class on emotions and games? Take ‘em outside to play tag! Or hide and seek!