Yasmin B. Kafai is Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the coeditor of Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming and coauthor of Connected Play: Tweens in a Virtual World (both published by the MIT Press). She is also coauthor of Connected Gaming. Carrie Heeter is Professor of Serious Game Design in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media, and Creative Director for Virtual University Design and Technology at Michigan State University. Jill Denner is Senior Research Associate at ETR Associates, a nonprofit agency in California. Jennifer Y. Sun is President and a founder of Numedeon, Inc., the company that launched Whyville.net, an educational virtual world targeted at children ages 8 to 14.
The editors of this book pay homage to the legacy of From Barbie to
Mortal Kombat while providing ample evidence that, even ten years
later, there remains significant gender inequity in the gaming
world, necessitating changes from within and outside of the
industry. The insights contained in this volume might be a catalyst
for such changes.
*Jessica L. Ghilani, University of Pittsburgh Signs: Journal of
Women in Culture and Society*
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