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Research in virtual worlds, online games, gender issues and regulating online environments. Official account for Gender Violence and Virtual Worlds Event 2013.

UK
Joined April 2013
If anyone has slides etc and has shared them online can you let us know please? #virtualgender
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Hopefully the dust has settled on last weeks #VG13. But it's not the end! The debate is just beginning. Storify coming soon :)
Top day discussing all things #gender and all things #virtual at #VG13. Thanks to all participants and speakers. Have safe trips home!
Thomas Walpole @drcabl3 : 'The digital closet' #VG13
Perpetrators hiding behind the Internet- human agency disappearing? #VG13
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Anne Burns: Interpretation of #choice depends of whether the woman is desirable to the viewer #VG13
Are victims of #revengeporn to blame? Rhetoric of #choice as a threat to #feminism? #VG13
Anne Burns on #involuntary #porn and the rhetoric of choice #VG13
Grace Halden: Internet enables #appearance and #disappearance - impact in identity and gender? #VG13
Grace Halden: #Gender in #virtualworlds: masking of identity and intention #VG13
Mili Popova @elmyra on 'When Worlds Collide' #VG13
Do #online communities have rights and responsibilities to #selfregulate? #VG13
Is #sexualviolence in #virtualworld a crime? Victims believe that real harm has taken place. #Regulation ? #VG13
Social construction in #virtualworld is similar to the one in offline society, but users have more influence than in the real world #VG13
Morning folks! Looking forward to seeing all the #VG13 participants later. :)
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@VirtualGender @olga_jurasz 'Titstare' app at Techcrunch: women in tech deserve better | Amy Gray theguardian.com/commentisfre…
finalising arrangements for #VirtualGender next week. Hope you're all ready! we'll be live tweeting for those who can't make it using #VG13