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Posted by CMS Webmaster at 1:36 PM in Accomplishments, Announcements | Permalink

An article in The EyeOpener Online turns to Henry Jenkins for background and context in an article on the growing realization that women constitute a significant percentage of the video-game-playing market:

Henry Jenkins, sociology professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says the industry has always been populated by men.

"The video game industry has always been overwhelmingly populated by men, and there is a dwindling number of women who are actually involved," he says.

"The video game industry is based on intuitive design space, which means that the game designers will come up with games, develop games that they are interested in playing. This means that since men are dominating the development field regarding video games, the games that are put on the market will cater towards mainly men," he says.

Jenkins says having more women in the industry will lead to a shift towards the conceptualization of gender-neutral games such as The Sims, rather than igniting a second boom in "girl games" of the '90s, such as Barbie's Dream World.

"The more women who are involved in the making of games, the more say and influence women will have in shaping the flow of thought and the flow of ideas for developing new games ... Electronic Arts and Maxis (maker of The Sims) are very dominant, and are improving." Jenkins says.

Read the article.

Posted by CMS Webmaster at 1:25 PM in CMS In The Press | Permalink

Professor Beth Coleman has passed along the following announcement (and request) for all members of the CMS Community:

This week was the kick off show for Minority Report (CMS.876) "100 Years of Radical Music" on MIT radio station WMBR (88.1). The students who are taking the course that coincides with the show are developing radio programs as part of their course work and also learning some basic skills about sound, recording, broadcast, and mix culture.

I want to invite students and faculty from our extended CMS community to
participate, as they would like:

- Send me an MP3 to include in a show.
- Send me a full mix.
- Send me some trivia about the history of recording technologies or electronic music.

If you would like to participate in the radio broadcast training, please e-mail me in advance.

Special guest mix contributors to the show include:
- Cory Doctorow
- High Priest (airborn audio/anti-pop consortium)
- MC Verb (soundlab)
- Oculart
- Dr. Joe Paradiso

...and more to come

You can listen online at http://wmbr.org/?p=sched

Posted by CMS Webmaster at 1:28 PM in Announcements | Permalink