Category Archives: Articles

The Kernel: “11 women who are changing geek culture” (Karen Tanenbaum featured)

November 9, 2014

By Ann Hoevel

While popular culture has invested a lot of screentime in the archetype of the nerdy white guy, women in geek culture have, for a long time, been invisible. But that in no way means they don’t exist. Though comic book, technology, and gaming industries have historically catered to men, women have always been a part of them—both as consumers and as creators—outside the spotlight.

Read the full story on the Kernel website.

Time: “How You Can Stop Email From Taking Over Your Life” (Mark quoted)

September 19, 2014

By Eric Barker

A new study released Thursday by the University of California, Irvine, which was co-written with United States Army researchers, found that people who do not look at e-mail on a regular basis at work are less stressed and more productive. “We were able to get second-by-second stress levels from our tests and we found that over the five-day period away from e-mail, people’s stress levels went down compared with when they were using e-mails,” Ms. [Gloria] Mark said.

Read the full story on the Time website.

Grist: “When climate disaster strikes, just hit the reset button” (Nardi research cited)

August 13, 2014

By Heather Hansman

A recent study from UC Irvine anthropologist Bonnie Nardi and Oregon State communications professor Shawna Kelly discovered that video games can explain complex concepts about climate change in a non-preachy way, and – because gaming is inherently solution based – even offer pathways to address it. The study says that, “Many popular video games sustain compelling storylines that narrativize scarce resources, promote competitive and collaborative social interaction, and foreground survival goals – all necessary skills for making sense of a changed and changing global environment.”

Read the full story on the Grist website.