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Pokémon GO: Testing the Limits of Augmented Reality, Accessibility, and Community
City Hall, Committee Room 3
Join us for an evening balancing the line of celebration and critique. We'll explore the popular mobile game, Pokemon GO, with three different approaches. Discussion to follow.
"Over the past three years, the intersection of video game fandom and social justice has become one of the most volatile and impassioned socio-political debates with which millennials have collectively engaged. Through the advent of Augmented Reality technology, Pokemon Go has brought many of these gender- and race-centered tensions from the global digital village of social media to the streets of Toronto. Meanwhile, players of all races and genders are recognizing the ways in which the joy, excitement and fulfilment found through Pokemon Go and its flourishing fanbase have been ignored in favour of sensationalist criticism depicting the game as brainless and dangerous." – Roxanne May, event speaker
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