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2021

• Flanagan, Mary. “If you play it, do you believe it?” Narrative Mechanics: Strategies and Meanings in Games and Real Life, edited by Beat Suter, René Bauer, and Mela Kocher. Transcript: Bielefeld, Germany, forthcoming.
• Flanagan, Mary. “Feminist(AI),” The Love Makers, edited by Aifric Campbell. London: Goldsmiths Press (Distributed by MIT Press) (in preparation).

2020

• Flanagan, Mary. “Enter the Dragon,” The Infinite Playgrounds, by Bernie Dekoven with Holly Gramazio. Edited by Eric Zimmerman, Celia Pearce, and Holly Gramazio. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020, pp. 136-139.
• Potter, Sharyn J, Demers, Jennifer M., Flanagan, Mary, Seidman, Max and Moschella, Elizabeth M. “Can Video Games Help Prevent Violence? An Evaluation of Games Promoting Bystander Intervention to Combat Sexual Violence on College Campuses,” Psychology of Violence, 19 November 2020.
• Flanagan, Mary. “Taking Binaries off the Table.” Feminist War Games? Mechanisms of War, Feminist Values, and Interventional Games, eds. Jon Saklofske, Alyssa Arbuckle, Jon Bath. New York: Routledge.

2019

• Flanagan, Mary. “A path to our futures.” ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories, inaugural issue, July 2019.
• Kaufman, Geoff & Flanagan, Mary & Freedman, Gili. (2019). Not Just for Girls: Encouraging Cross-Gender Role Play and Reducing Gender Stereotypes with a Strategy Game. 481-493. 10.1145/3311350.3347177.
• Flanagan, Mary. “Play Ends Here,” Essay for the Playmode Exhibition, Museu de Arte, Arquitectura e Tecnologia  Lisbon Portugal.

2018

• Flanagan, Mary. “Video Games and Gaming Culture.” Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Gender: SPACE. Ed. Hedblad, Alan and Kooistra, Alja. New York: Macmillan, 2018.
• Flanagan, Mary. “Critical Play and Responsible Design.” The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities. Ed. Jentery Sayers. New York: Routledge 2018, pp. 183 – 195.
• Freedman G, Flanagan M, Kaufman G, Green MC (2018) “Obituaries Can Popularize Science and Health: Stephen Hawking and Interest in Cosmology and ALS,” Psychology of Popular Media Culture.
• Potter, S.J., Flanagan, M., Seidman, M., Hodges, H., Stapleton, J., Vessels, L. (2018) “Developing and Piloting Video Games to Increase College and University Students’ Awareness and Efficacy of the Bystander Role in Incidents of Sexual Violence,” Games for Health Journal doi: 10.1089/g4h.2017.0172
• Freedman, G., Seidman, M., Flanagan, M., Kaufman, G., & Green, M. C. (2018) The impact of an “aha” moment on gender biases: Limited evidence for the efficacy of a game intervention that challenges gender assumptions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 72, 162-167.doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2018.03.014

2016

• Flanagan, M. and Kaufman, G. “Shifting Implicit Biases with Games using Psychology: The Embedded Design Approach. Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat: Perspectives on Gender, Race, & Sexuality in Gaming, eds Yasmin Kafai, Gabriela Coleman, & Brendesha Tynes. (2016, CMU/ETC).
  The entire book is a free PDF! yay.
• Flanagan, Mary. “An Alternate History of Wargaming.” Zones of Control. Pat Harrigan and Matthew Kirschenbaum, eds. (MIT Press 2016).
• Flanagan, Mary. “Games as a Medium.” Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon. Eds. Raiforn Guins and Henry Lowood. (MIT Press 2016).
• Flanagan, Mary. “Game Art.” Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon. Eds. Raiforn Guins and Henry Lowood. (MIT Press 2016).
• Flanagan, Mary. “Critical Play: The Productive Paradox.” Blackwell Companion to Digital Art, ed. Christiane Paul (Blackwell/Wiley, 2016).

2015

• Flanagan, Mary. “The Ludification of Culture  & Playful Aesthetics.” Gameful World, Ed. S. Walz and Sebastian Deterding. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015.
• Kaufman, G., Flanagan, M.  “A Psychologically “Embedded” Approach to Designing Games for Prosocial Causes.” Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, Special Issue on Videogames. (2015).
• Kaufman, G., Flanagan, M., Seidman, M., & Wien, S. “RePlay Health: An experiential role-playing sport for modeling health care decisions, policies, and outcomes.”  Games for Health Journal 4(4) 2015.
• Manzo, C., Kaufman, G., Punjasthitkul, S., and Flanagan, M. “By the People, For the People: Assessing Value of Crowdsourced, User-Generated Metadata,” Digital Humanities Quarterly 9(1) 2015.
• Kaufman, G., Flanagan, M., and Seidman, M.  “Creating Stealth Game Interventions for Attitude and Behavior Change:  An ‘Embedded Design’ Model.” Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) 2015
• Seidman, M., Flanagan, M., and Kaufman, G.  “Failed Games:  Lessons Learned from Promising but Problematic Game Prototypes in Designing for Diversity.” Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) 2015

2014

• Kaufman, Geoff, Mary Flanagan, & Sukdith Punjasthitkul, “Comparing the Impact of ‘Emphasis Frames’ on Player Motivation and Performance in a Crowdsourcing Game,” Proceedings of Meaningful Play 2014
• Flanagan, Mary, “Why the Pinkification of Children’s Toys Hurts Women,” The Daily Beast 26 February 2014.

2013

• Kaufman, G. and Flanagan, M. “Lost in Translation:  Comparing the Impact of an Analog and Digital Version of a Public Health Game on Players’ Perceptions, Attitudes, and Cognitions.” Intnl Journal of Games & Computer Mediated Simulations 5(3) 2013
• Flanagan, Mary. “The Bride Stripped Bare.” Reprinted in: Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, edited by Patrick Keilty and Rebecca Dean. Sacramento, CA: Litwin Books, 2013.
• Flanagan, M., Seidman, M., Punjasthitkul, S., Kaufman, G. and Carini, P. “Citizen Archivists at Play: Game Design for  Gathering Metadata for Cultural Heritage Institutions.” Proceedings of DiGRA 2013 Atlanta Georgia.

2012

• How games can help us access and understand cultural artifacts. American Archivist 75(2), pp. 514-537, with Peter Carini, 2012.

2010

• Exploring the Creative Potential of Values Conscious Design: Students’ Experiences with the VAP Curriculum. Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture, with Jonathan Belman, 2010.
• Margot Lovejoy, Christiane Paul, Victoria Vesna, eds. Bristol, UK: Intellect Press, 2010.
• Creating Critical Play
  Artists Rethinking Games.
  Eds Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, and Corrado Morgana. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010, 49-53.

2009

• Designing Games to Foster Empathy. Cognitive Technology 14(2) 2009, with Jonathan Belman.
• Instructional Methods and Curricula for Values Conscious Design. Loading: The Official Journal of the Canadian Games Studies Association3(4), with Jonathan Belman and Helen Nissenbaum 2009.
• Play, Participation, and Art: Blurring the Edges.
  Context Providers.
• An Appreciation on the Impact of the work of Sonia Landy Sheridan.
  The Art of Sonia Landy Sheridan.
  Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, 2009, 37-42.
• Anxiety, Openness, and Activist Games: A Case Study for Critical Play.
  Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Association
  with Anna Lotko, Uxbridge UK, 2009

2007

• The Sims: Suburban Utopias.
  Space Time Play. Synergies Between Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism
  Eds. Friedrich von Borries, Walz, Steffen P. Walz, Mattias Böttger. Birkhauser Publishing, Basel Boston Berlin, 2007, 150-152.
• RAPUNSEL: How a computer game designed based on educational theory can improve girls’ self-efficacy and self-esteem.
  Proceedings of the American Educational Research Association 
  Plass, J. L, Goldman, R., Flanagan, M., Diamond, J., Dong, C., Looui, S., Hyuksoon Song, H., Rosalia, C. & Perlin, K. Chicago, April 2007
• Locating Play and Politics: Real World Games and Political Action
  Proceedings of the Digital Arts and Culture Conference
  Perth Australia Dec 2007
• Rethinking the F Word: A Review of Activist Art on the Internet
  National Women’s Studies Association Journal (Special Issue: Feminist Activist Art) Volume 19, Number 1 with Suyin Looui, Spring 2007, 181-200.

2006

• My Profile, Myself in Playculture
  Exploring Digital Artefacts
  Johan Bornebusch and Patrik Hernwall, Editors. M3 Publication, 2006, 20-29.
• Making Games for Social Change
  AI & Society: The Journal of Human-Centered Systems
  Springer London: Springer, 20(1), January 2006
• The ‘Nature’ of Networks: Space and Place in the Silicon Forest
  Nature et progrès : interactions, exclusions, mutations
  Ed. Pierre Lagayette. Paris : Presses de l’Université. Paris-Sorbonne, 2006

2005

• New Design Methods for Activist Gaming
  Proceedings from DiGRA 2005
  Mary Flanagan, D.C. Howe, Helen Nissenbaum
  16-20 June, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Troubling ‘Games for Girls’: Notes from the Edge of Game Design
  Proceedings from DiGRA 2005
  16-20 June, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Values at Play: Design Tradeoffs in Socially-Oriented Game Design
  Proceedings of the CHI 2005 conference on Human factors in computing systems
  with Howe and Nissenbaum, CHI 2005, 2-7 April, Portland, Oregon
• Une Maison de Poupee Virtuelle Capitaliste? The Sims: Domesticite, Consommation, et Feminite
  Consommations & Sociétés: Cahiers pluridisciplinaire sur la consommation et l’interculturel
  Ed. Mélanie Roustan et Dominique Desjeux

2004

• Developing Virtual Performance Spaces
  American Puppetry
  Ed. Phyllis T. Dircks. New York: Theatre Library Association, 2004

2003

• The bride stripped bare to her Data: information flow and digibodies
  Data Made Flesh
  Thurtle et al. 2003
• Next Level: Women’s Digital Activism through Gaming
  Digital Media Revisited
  Edited by Andrew Morrison, Gunnar Liestøl & Terje Rasmussen, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003, 359 – 388

2002

• Hyperbodies, Hyperknowledge: Women in Games, Women in Cyberpunk, and Strategies of Resistance
  reload: rethinking women + cyberculture
  Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002, 425-454

2001

• Spatialized MagnoMemories
  Culture Machine 3 – Virologies: Culture and Contamination
  Eds. David Boothroyd and Gary Hall. 2001

2000

• navigable narratives: gender +narrative spatiality in virtual worlds
  Art Journal
  Vol 59 no. 3, Fall 2000, 74 – 85
• Response to Celia Pearce: About Computer Gaming
  First Person
  Ed. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan. Cambridge: MIT Press

1999

• Mobile Identities, Digital Stars, & Post-Cinematic Selves
  Wide Angle: Issue on Digitality & the Memory of Cinema. 21:3, 1999
• Digital Stars Are Here to Stay
  convergence: the journal of research into new media technologies
  Eds. Julia Knight + Alexis Weedon, University of Luton, Summer 1999. Print and Internet

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• La novia desnudada hasta sus mismísimos datos: flujo de información + digicuerpos.
  X0y1: #ensayos sobre género y ciberespacio__. Coordinadora Remedios Zafra, Traduce Natalia Pérez-Galdós. Madrid: Arte Género Ciberespacio, 2010, pp. 12-48.
• Identidades móviles, estrellas digitales y yoes postcinemáticos. 
  X0y1: #ensayos sobre género y ciberespacio__.
  Coordinadora Remedios Zafra, Traduce Natalia Pérez-Galdós. Madrid: Arte Género Ciberespacio, 2010, pp. 118 -136.