Aram Zucker-Scharff

Femme Doms of Videogames: Bayonetta Doesn’t Care If She’s Not Your Kink:

Dismissing Bayonetta as a product of “male gaze” is an oversimplification of who might be doing the “gazing”—let alone the identifying.

Gamergate Supporters Partied at a Strip Club This Weekend:

How 8Chan celebrated its first birthday.

This is a weird article. GamerGate goes to strip club, brings laptops, ignores strippers, talks about dicks, complains about SJWs, and parties in Brooklyn. What? 

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I’ve been using Twitter for eight years, but I’ve never seen behavior quite like this. This swarming behavior is so prevalent, it got a new nickname — “sea lioning,” inspired by David Malki’s Wondermark comic.

I wanted to understand #Gamergate, how its proponents and critics behaved and the composition of both audiences.

So I wrote a little Python script with the Twython wrapper for the Twitter streaming API, and started capturing every single tweet that mentioned the #Gamergate and #NotYourShield hashtags.

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– 72 Hours of Gamergate.

“If GamerGate is about ethics among journalists, why is the female developer receiving 14 times as many outraged tweets as the male journalist?”

– Is GamerGate about media ethics or harassing women? Harassment, the data shows.