{"id":23342,"date":"2016-01-28T14:54:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T22:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=23342"},"modified":"2017-08-24T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T17:32:52","slug":"csws-faculty-affiliate-ed-chang-calls-for-more-representation-in-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/csws-faculty-affiliate-ed-chang-calls-for-more-representation-in-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"CSWS faculty affiliate Ed Chang Calls for more representation in video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23344\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/csws-faculty-affiliate-ed-chang-calls-for-more-representation-in-video-games\/chang-2835\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23344\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23344\" class=\" wp-image-23344\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chang-2835-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ed Chang\" width=\"179\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chang-2835.jpg 219w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/chang-2835-110x150.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ed Chang<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a lecture titled \u201cBrown Skins, White Avatars: Racebending and Straightwashing in Digital Games,\u201d Edmond Chang spoke about how video games like Assassin\u2019s Creed and World of Warcraft \u201cmanipulate race and sexuality, reinforce stereotypes, and sometimes lack diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chang, a CSWS faculty affiliate and visiting assistant professor of women\u2019s and gender studies at University of Oregon, gave his talk at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on January 26. For an article about the presentation, go to\u00a0<em>The Daily Nexus<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a lecture titled \u201cBrown Skins, White Avatars: Racebending and Straightwashing in Digital Games,\u201d Edmond Chang spoke about how video games like Assassin\u2019s Creed and World of Warcraft \u201cmanipulate race and sexuality, reinforce stereotypes, and sometimes lack diversity.\u201d Chang, a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/csws-faculty-affiliate-ed-chang-calls-for-more-representation-in-video-games\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,17,65,28,326,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-outreach","category-faculty-affiliates","category-gender","category-lectures","category-race-issues","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27286,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23342\/revisions\/27286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}