The smoky-room Communist meetings in gaming actually exist, they're just done in the brightly-lit halls of academia.
Sources:
Ten Articles in one day:
http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSsucks/comments/2f027x/sj_media_is_shitting_out_article_after_article/
Gamers are Over - Leigh Alexander
http://archive.today/l1kTW
Article after article decrying "gamer"
http://www.reddit.com/r/SRSsucks/comments/2f027x/sj_media_is_shitting_out_article_after_article/
Silverstring's influence over games
http://silverstringmedia.com/projects/
Andrew Grant Wilson - Silverstring Media
http://silverstringmedia.com/blog/2014/8/20/a-to-z-a-digra-letter-series-part-4
Adrienne Shaw
http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/gaming-at-the-edge
https://twitter.com/adrishaw
http://adrienneshaw.com/
Shaw at Digra conference
http://adrienneshaw.com/research/conference-presentations/
DiGRA
http://www.digra.org/
http://www.digra.org/the-association/about-us/
Mia Consalvo
http://coms.concordia.ca/faculty/consalvo.html
TL Taylor
http://cmsw.mit.edu/profile/tl-taylor/
The Playful is Political on DiGRA schedule
http://digra2014.eae.utah.edu/files/2014/06/Schedule.pdf
Justification of people involved
http://spartanideas.msu.edu/2014/08/07/studio-studies-debugging-the-culture-and-work-of-game-developers/
Shira Chess
http://shirachess.com/site/publications/
http://grady.uga.edu/directory/profile2/chess
http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=1890983
The Playful is Political Transcript Twitter Confirmation
https://twitter.com/adrishaw/status/496390327347847169
The Playful is Political Transcript
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S-QQML7a3dbJ5JJDd5-EmQ6nOnYewNGmkn7VQ_G_oxk/edit#
Silverstring logs
http://pastebin.com/jrLJyp0W
Dismantling "hegemonic masculinity in gamer culture"
http://adanewmedia.org/2013/06/issue2-shaw/
Michigan University - Studio Studies: Debugging the Culture and Work of Game Developers
http://spartanideas.msu.edu/2014/08/07/studio-studies-debugging-the-culture-and-work-of-game-developers/
Systems of Support by Silverstring
http://blogjob.com/oneangrygamer/2014/09/silverstring-responds-to-igf-sex-scandal-controversy/
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