[game_edu] New Demographics Report?

[Bill Crosbie]

Jason,

Thanks for being our 'institutional memory' on this front. It was
posted on the IGDA site under Diversity so I jumped to an unfounded
conclusion.  :-)

Ok, everyone. Are there any of you with anthropology or organizational
communication majors itching for a project at your institutions?
Sounds like we have a heck of a project for them to take on.

If you don't mind, Jason, I will forward your post on in the IGDABoat
group to see if any of the SIG members were a) involved in the review
and b) are willing to partner in trying to move this forward.

Bill
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On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Jason Della Rocca
<Jason at perimeterpartners.com> wrote:

> Hi all,

>

> Oh yes, would be awesome to do a refresh on the workforce demographics

> survey! Actually, it was always the plan to do it every year...

>

> As a bit of background, the survey was NOT handled by the SIGs.

>

> Out of the blue, I got an email from an anthropology student who was

> looking to do a summer internship/co-op (paid for by the school) and

> wanted to come work at the IGDA and look into the question of gender

> in games.

>

> After discussing options, we settled on the idea of doing a more

> comprehensive demographics survey and report. He did the bulk of the

> survey creation and administration. And he worked with the Women in

> Games SIG and Diversity Committee and the Accessibility SIG to get

> their input/feedback on the questions.

>

> The student also did the bulk of the analysis and the first draft of

> the report before his internship was done. I did the final version of

> report. Again, the various SIGs/committees had a chance to review

> drafts and provide feedback.

>

> Not sure relying on a SIG to do it will get us very far... Good news

> is that we did post the survey file and the raw data online. So,

> re-administering it and crunching some comparisons will be less

> painful....

>

> Regards,

> Jason

>

>

> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Bill Crosbie <bill.crosbie at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Beth,

>>

>> This is a great idea.  That report came out of the diversity SIG.  I

>> know there was talk on the IGDA facebook stream asking about the

>> status of both the LGBT and Diversity SIGs and there were several

>> people discussing the need to reboot/kickstart that group.

>>

>> I'll post a request and see if anyone from that group picks up on

>> it/gets back with some more information.

>>

>> Bill

>>

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>> It is humbling almost to the point of despair to discover that 15

>> dozen screenfuls of ponderous commentary produced by a small

>> liberal-arts faculty worth of beardy gamer geeks can, with almost zero

>> loss of insight, be reduced to the three panels of a Penny Arcade

>> cartoon.

>> ~ Julian Dibbell quoted in Wired (September 2007)

>>

>>

>>

>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Beth Aileen Lameman

>> <beth at bethaileen.com> wrote:

>>> Hey everyone! I hate to throw out an idea that I have no resources to

>>> follow-up on myself, but...

>>>

>>> I frequently use the Diversity Survey/Demographics Report

>>> (http://archives.igda.org/diversity/report.php) as a reference in

>>> articles and it's starting to feel awfully outdated. 2005 was forever

>>> ago! (Scary.)

>>>

>>> I am hoping that someone out there will be able to take on running a

>>> new survey and following up with reports.

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