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7 December 2012

Anita Sarkeesian and the gamification of misogyny

How internet communities encourage bad behaviour online.

By Helen Lewis

Anita Sarkeesian, the videogame critic who attracted an online hate campaign – and a game about beating her up – after she launched a Kickstarter project (I like writing it like that, to emphasise the madness of it) spoke at a TEDx event organised by the Paley Center for Media.

You can watch the video here; it’s around 10 minutes long:

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