I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting a talk entitled "Crisis in Orkientalism: Navigating the Racial Other in Blizzard's World of Warcraft" tonight at 6:30 in H105 as part of NipissingYOU's Speaker Series. In January of 2008, World of Warcraft's subscriber base reached ten million players worldwide, and it is the most successful Massively Multiplay Online Rolye Playing Game on the market today. I will be discussing how the game's racial constructs reflect 19th century ideas of scientific racism, along with making a case for the value of humanities-based criticism in video game studies.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
World of Warcraft and 19th-century racial constructs
Rhiannon Don of the Department of English Studies invites you to a talk:
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I'd love to see this paper. Is there any chance you could send me the direct contact information, or send him mine?
ReplyDeleteI would also love to see your paper, as it sounds extremely similar to work I'm doing on WoW.
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