[game_edu] New Demographics Report?

[steve graham]

  Does anyone have an estimate of how much work is/was involved? I'm 
looking for an estimate in hours or days of effort, if possible.

cheers,
skg

On 11/23/2010 4:37 PM, Bill Crosbie wrote:

> 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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> 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 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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>>

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steve graham
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