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Following the release of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, Emma Vossen and Sarah Stang examine the trajectory of the representation of gender roles in the iconic video game series and how, until this latest game, Zelda embodied the damsel-in-distress trope. Though in Echoes of Wisdom players can now play as Zelda for the first time, Vossen and Stang question whether this change will have an impact on gender representation in video games.
Emma Vossen is a writer and researcher with a PhD from the University of Waterloo. She is the coauthor and coeditor of the book Feminism in Play (Palgrave, 2018) and […]
Sarah Stang is an assistant professor of game studies in Brock University’s Game Design program, housed in the Department of Digital Humanities. She is a feminist media scholar who specializes […]
Lilian Olivia Orero is a lawyer and advocate of the High Court of Kenya, specializing in gender, technology, and law, with a particular focus on cybersecurity, women’s online safety, and […]
Danielle Wood is an associate professor in the Program in Media Arts & Sciences at the MIT Media Lab and holds a joint appointment in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics & […]
Todd Whitney is a journalist and technologist whose work uses environmental sensing and community-oriented data frameworks to open up climate justice discourses. By building hardware and designing data collection methods, […]
Petra Kuppers is a white, German, queer, disabled, cis woman of size living in the United States, a community performance artist, and a disability culture activist. Her work revolves around […]
Whit Pow is an assistant professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Their work is forthcoming in Camera Obscura and has been published in […]
Jewell Ruth-Ella Humphrey is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a proud alumna of Africana studies at Howard University. […]
Rayvon Fouché holds a joint appointment as professor of communication studies and professor in the Medill School of Journalism, Media, and Integrative Marketing Communications. He authored or edited Black Inventors […]
Rianna Walcott is a postdoctoral fellow in the Black Communication and Technology Lab at the University of Maryland, and part of the DISCO Network. Walcott will be joining the Department […]