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James Malazita, "Enacting Platforms: Feminist Technoscience and the Unreal Engine" (MIT Press, 2024)

New Books in Critical Theory

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Visual Regimes and Racial Representation in Game Design

This chapter explores the impact of cinematic traditions on game design, focusing on Unreal Engine's rendering of skin tones, particularly through Epic's MetaHuman Creator. It highlights the biases in visual representation of race and advocates for an intersectional feminist perspective to address these embedded inequalities in gaming technology.

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