This week’s In Media Res<http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/> theme focus is Issues of Gender and Race in Games Industries and Fandoms (November 10 - November 14, 2014).

Here's the line-up:

Monday, November 10, 2014 - Nina Huntemann (Suffolk University) presents: Crashing GamerGate
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - Diana Pozo (University of California-Santa Barbara) presents: Curtain: Queer Video Games, Identity, and Realism
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - Kishonna Gray (University of Eastern Kentucky) presents: Deviating from the Norm: Examining How Blackness is Punished in Video Games
Thursday, November 13, 2014 - Amanda Phillips (University of California-Davis) presents: Bayonetta, Femme Disturbance, and AAA Queer Desires
Friday, November 14, 2014 - Jessica Aldred (University of Montreal) presents: #My(Darling)Clementine: Keeping girlhood innocence from being ‘lost and gone forever’ in Telltale’s The Walking Dead games

Theme week organized by Matt Smith<http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/users/mboydsmithgsu> & Dewey Musante<http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/users/dewmusante> (Georgia State University).

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Best,
The In Media Res Team

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