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Pacifica Radio’s From the Vault

June 29, 2015

Pacifica Radio’s <em>From the Vault</em>

Brian DeShazor discusses the origins of Pacifica Radio and the archival radio series, "From the Vault." The Pacifica Radio Archives was established in 1971 to house a collection of over 60,000 reel-to-reel tapes, representing the last half of the 20th century as experienced and reported on by Pacifica Radio.
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Tags: #RPTF, archives, From the Vault, KPFA, KPFK, Lewis Hill, media history, National Public Radio, Pacifica Foundation, Pacifica Radio, Pacifica Radio Archives, public radio, radio, Radio Preservation Task Force, social justice
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Unpacking Rust, Race, and Player Reactions to Change

June 15, 2015

By Adrienne Shaw

Unpacking <em>Rust</em>, Race, and Player Reactions to Change

This spring, game designers of Rust courted controversy by assigning players unchangeable, racialized avatars. Adrienne Shaw unpacks how game design helped produce some of that player outrage.
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Tags: audience studies, avatars, Cobra Club, colorblindness, Facepunch Studios, media aesthetics, MMO, racism, Representation, Runaways, Rust, social justice, video games
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