MAI editors illuminate the need for more feminist voices to rejuvenate the pedagogy in the popular yet male-dominated games design.
Rebecca Rouse
Rebecca Rouse is an Associate Professor in Media Arts, Aesthetics, and Narration and co-director of PlayLab in the Division of Game Development at the University of Skövde, Sweden. Rouse’s research spans artistic creation, design with XR technologies, media history, and critical pedagogy. Her focus is the development of new forms of storytelling with the latest technologies in media theatre, games, and interactive narrative. Rouse teaches courses in Game Writing, Interactive Storytelling, Worldbuilding, XR Media Theater Design, and Games User Experience at undergraduate and graduate levels. See www.rebeccarouse.com for more information.
WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey