During her keynote speech at last year's ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in New Orleans, Dr. Kishonna Grey shared a story about the game Pokémon Go. She'd just become a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and as someone who studies games and their intersections with factors like gender and race and with Black experience in particular, she was eager to learn about this game that had become such a cultural sensation.
Read MoreRecently, actual plays have been finding port with a new generation of gamers, many of whom come from more diverse backgrounds. Old School Renaissance, or OSR, is a gaming movement whose players claim they are "Against outside politics permeating their game space," said Dashiell.
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