Category Archives: TEDtalk

video games for girls

Not a Psychology of Gender class goes by these days were I do not read at least one journal entry from a woman who LOVES video gaming but nevertheless struggles with the fact that her favourite games were designed by and for men, and, furthermore are played predominantly by men and boys. So here is an entry for our video gamers -- both women and men. Watch the following video and ask yourself if you feel video game researcher, Brenda Laurel, is on the right track as she designs video games for girls. Here is a short description of her 2009 TED talk:


A TED archive gem. At TED in 1998, Brenda Laurel asks: Why are all the top-selling videogames aimed at little boys? She spent two years researching the world of girls (and shares amazing interviews and photos) to create a game that girls would love.





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Will social media’s "like" be more useful than gender?

Joanna Blakely claims that our use of social media (in which women significantly surpass men's use) will cause us to care less about gender and more about what a person "likes." But do you believe her predictions? Will gender become obsolete or not -- comment below to add YOUR prediction ...

Johanna Blakley: Social media and the end of gender | Video on TED.com
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The Gender Companion, copyright 2011 – Dr. Jessica Motherwell McFarlane, Ph.D. This blog is a companion site for the Psychology of Gender Online, UBC. Creative commons attribution, non-commercial sharing only (translation: feel free to quote me in context or use this entry but please always credit me for my work, thanks.)http://thegendercompanion.blogspot.com/ See also Psyc 320 course description: http://ctlt.ubc.ca/distance-learning/courses/psyc/psyc320/