Selected Publications
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Ethnography as Play
T.L. Taylor explores the complexities of play in games and expands our understanding of the work of ethnography as play.
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Defining Sex
Edward Schiappa identifies scientific as well as socio-political factors contributing to the current definitional “rupture” over how to define sex.
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The Transgender Exigency: Defining Sex and Gender in the 21st Century (2021)
Edward Schiappa examines the key sites of debate including schools, bathrooms, the military, sports, prisons, and feminism, drawing attention to the political, practical, and ethical dimensions of the act of defining itself.
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Authenticity, Interactivity, and Collaboration in Virtual Reality Games: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
“In this paper, we document and summarize the studies associated with our 4-year design project, Collaborative Learning Environments in Virtual Reality (CLEVR).”
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“A Cellular Symphony”: A featured piece from Angles 2021, the best of MIT’s introductory writing subjects
“I’m ready for the lyricism of the lab,” writes biological engineer major Laura Schmidt-Hong.
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Messy on the inside: internet memes as mapping tools of everyday life
The first systematic analysis of memes created by Palestinians in Israel. An analysis of 150 memes reveals how memes are used to reflect on and intervene in Palestinian youths’ navigation of life in mixed cities under prolonged war and colonialism.
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What is National Belonging in a Nation that Doesn’t Belong?
“They ‘bypassed the nation,’ as I had put it, and instead forged human connections that were on a local and transnational scale.”
