Evan Lauteria

Opinion | It just became a lot harder to teach sociology in Florida Robyn Autry: Florida's ultimate goal appears to be ending the teaching of sociology altogether

Glad to see this getting more attention. Thanks, @ms.now. www.ms.now/opinion/flor...

(P.S., I'm the professor who pointed out the typos last week. All that paper-grading finally paid off!)

Newspaper clipping, covering a quotation from Evan Lauteria, an assistant instructional professor at the University of Florida. Text provided in post and article link.

“This textbook serves the ideological interests of the Florida state government[…]. [It] erases our field’s capacity to address social problems and sets a dangerous precedent for the state to impose its own definition of science well beyond sociology.” www.gainesville.com/story/news/e...

Florida Introduces “Sanitized” Sociology Textbook The volume was created after a state review found that existing course materials violated a law prohibiting general education courses from teaching about systemic inequality. So far, at least two univ...

This semester’s been very intense so far… and somehow, I don’t think it’s calming down any time soon.

FL’s anti-“woke” witchhunt has been so wasteful, so misguided, and so disruptive. My students deserve a quality education, not this propagandized mess.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Hard to think of today as Independence Day under the current regime. As if we haven’t already seen terrible human rights violations, the deaths resulting from Medicaid cuts will be devastating. But… I’m more fearful for folks trapped in the Florida concentration camp when hurricanes roll in… 😢

I hope you’ll be participating in the economic blackout tomorrow, boycotting major retailers and only shopping small, local businesses if you need any emergency supplies, preferably with cash.

CONSIDER “LEVEL UP” OPTIONS
* Cancel Amazon Prime
* Don’t Google anything
* Use Duck Player for YouTube

Had some frustrating experiences at work this week, but I’m feeling really good about being at UF in this capacity. I’ve managed to, in a fairly short amount of time, connect with and help a lot of undergrads expand their horizons (and I hope some pubs come out of it!).

Official Artwork of Attis and Cyblele from Persona 5: Royal

Not to *always* bring up Persona, butttttt… she and Attis are my faves.

The freedom to be surveilled constantly, among other similar freedoms… 😞

The idea that fairness and centrism in reporting are the same thing is a disease I don’t think these people are ever going to recover from.

A bipartisan special parliamentary inquiry in Australia today said big tech is “pillaging culture, data and creativity” to train AI, and must license and pay for training data.

This is how all governments should respond to this technology.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

With all the new #gamestudies folks that moved over it's a good time for me to post that submissions are open for the PCA/ACA conference in New Orleans in April. Why, yes, I am one of the Area Chairs. Deadline November 30.

Submission for abstracts information here: pcaaca.org/page/submiss...

Global Games, Localized Cultures: The Rise of the Japanese Video Games Industry Author(s): Lauteria, Evan Wilson | Advisor(s): Grindstaff, Laura; Milburn, Colin | Abstract: The video game industry today is widespread and gargantuan, with a player base greater than a quarter of th...

Looking ahead: I'm gonna be working toward getting the dissertation, which explores the ideology and mythology of cultural "localization" and the expansion of the Japanese games industry, into book form soon(ish). escholarship.org/uc/item/82w4...

LGBTQ Video Game Archive A curated/researched collection of information of LGBTQ content in digital games from 1980s-present

"Counting Queerness in Games: Trends in LGBTQ Digital Game Representation, 1985‒2005" (2019) w/ @adrishaw.bsky.social et al., based on curatorial work on lgbtqgamearchive.com (thanks, Adrienne, for letting me participate!)

Article here: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Queerness in Play This volume examines the ways in which queerness—from an understanding of queer as LGBTQ, to lesser covered elements of the spectrum—intersects with gaming. With work on gameplay, design, deployment, ...

"Envisioning Queer Game Studies" in _Queerness in Play_ (2018), edited by Todd Harper, @mblytheadams.bsky.social, and Nicholas Taylor. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Check it out if you want a fun queer reading of ludology's snarkiest argument from early 2000s (or my data on trans rep in games)

Rated M for Mature The word sex has many implications when it is used in connection with video games. As game studies scholars have argued, games are player-driven experiences. Pl…

(link to the book here: www.bloomsbury.com/us/rated-m-f...)

Cover art for _Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games_, featuring a teal-green background and a pixelated couple engaged in conversation with a heart-icon and a question mark and an exclamation point in speech bubbles.

Rated M for Mature: Sex and Sexuality in Video Games w/ @profmatthew.bsky.social (2015). Eternally grateful you gave me this opportunity to collaborate, Matthew!

"Ga(y)mer Theory: Queer Modding as Resistance" reconstruction.digitalodu.com/Issues/122/L...
(thank you, @burnedprof.bsky.social, for giving me a platform for my first publication back in 2012!)

First post? I hear self-promotion is important…

I’m a Univ of FL sociologist, with interests in culture, globalization, science and technology, and gender and sexuality. Previous work on queer game studies; now exploring Japanese game industry.

Thread of my pubs to follow~

Real answer: around this time in the term, I do @jackboxgames.bsky.social in-class—reality TV game “Roomerang” for Soc. of Pop Culture and science pellet distribution simulator “Role Models” for Soc. of Science

For your class on emotions and games? Take ‘em outside to play tag! Or hide and seek!