The Content
Gaming Broadly was started by broad who games who wanted to talk about gaming (broadly speaking). It’s a place to experiment with playing thoughtfully, thinking playfully, and discovering what playfulness can teach us about being human.
The Creator
JayDee
(aka “the main broad”) is an educator and extrapolater exploring the intersections of video games, social action, religion, and other forms of meaning-making. JD has spent her career and education loitering at the intersections between technology and community. Before moving to New Orleans, Louisiana and becoming the Director of a Jewish STEM program, JD was, at various points, the Education Coordinator at a Reform Jewish synagogue in Austin, TX, an After-school Program Coordinator and Camp Director for a social justice organization in Rhode Island, a Program Coordinator for the Leadership & Ethics Institute at UT-Austin, a teacher at the JCC of Greater Rhode Island where she taught leadership and civic engagement, an ethnographer studying religious communities who used video games as part of their religious practice, and Site Lead for Girls Make Games and Girls Who Code, organizations dedicated to closing the gender gap in STEM by teaching girls computer programming and video game design. She has been occasionally known to have opinions about women and tech.
JD grew up in the Appalachian region of North Carolina, where she dual-majored in Psychology and Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. She then earned her Master’s from the University of Texas at Austin, where she researched video game environments, Japanese games, and communal memory.
In addition to this website, other ghostly digital versions of JD exist on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Academia.edu. She also has a tinyletter, which is what she hears all the cool kids are doing these days.
The Credits
The trio of images on the homepage, Gaming Broad(ly)’s logo, and Gaming Broad(cast)’s logo, were all made by Kyle Armstrong. The “This Week in Pink” header was made by JD (which is why it looks terrible).
The Copyright
Gaming Broad(ly) is licensed by JD Mallindine under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor (aka GamingBroadly.com) endorses you or your use.
NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
What Can I Use? — Excerpts up to 1,000 words and links may be used in a non-commercial setting, provided that full and clear credit is given to me and the Gaming Broad(ly) website with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
Can I Cite Gaming Broad(ly) in an Academic Publication? — If you intend to cite or use the work on this blog in an academic publication, please contact me beforehand. I want to hear and learn from people who are interacting with my work. Conversation is a great people thing, so reach out so we can do some great people-ing together!
How Should I Cite The Author? — Unless otherwise indicated, all posts are written by JD. Please use “J.D. Mallindine” for citing.
