"Game changers: Video games transition from technology product to cultural form"

Gaming journalist Leigh Alexander will discuss video games’ emergence as a pop cultural form and how they have as evolved from simple diversions and commercial products. Her topics will include the democratization of tools, the rise of women creators, conservative backlash and future trends.

Leigh Alexander is editor-in-chief of Offworld.com, Boing Boing’s countercultural games site. She is former editor of the gaming industry news site Gamasutra, and the author of Breathing Machine and Clipping Through, ebooks on tech and identity. Her work has appeared in Slate, The Atlantic, The New Statesman, The Guardian and others.

Lunch reception follows the lecture.