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Female Umpires Encountering a Culture of Abuse and Misogyny

This article was originally posted on the BroadAgenda, and can be found here. “I wouldn’t know any woman who’s been in umpiring who hasn’t experienced something negative,” says Carly*, a former AFL umpire. She’s commenting on a recent study, conducted by former umpire Victoria Rawlings and former umpiring manager Damian Anderson, which examined the experience of […]

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Civilisation Video game Review: A Cultural Artefact of Eurocentrism?

Videogames as a form of multimedia have been shown to prompt substantial critical engagement of a text, despite arguments otherwise (Chapman, 2013). Sid Meier’s sixth instalment of the Civilisation series (2016)is a turn-based strategy game, also known as a ‘4X’ game, representing exploration, expansion, exploitation and extermination (Ford, 2016). As the premise of the game […]

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