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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 (forthcoming 2020).

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 (forthcoming 2019).

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.