Microgame Online Workshop

Join us on Tuesday, July 29th at 1 pm Eastern for an online microgame workshop featuring The Meta Oversight Board: Content Moderation vs. Political Speech on Social Media and Revolting Nuns: Rebellion at Sainte-Croix, 590. You can choose one microgame, and each workshop includes a full play-through of the microgame, as well as set-up, debrief, and a Q&A session to help you understand how best to run the microgame in your own classroom. 

MICROGAME OPTIONS

META OVERSIGHT BOARD
The Meta Oversight Board: Content Moderation vs. Political Speech on Social Media immerses students in the challenges of balancing digital free speech with public safety and human rights. Players take on roles as members of Meta’s Oversight Board or one of five factions advocating different values around platforms’ role in society. Using real-world cases of banned social media posts, students debate how political and cultural contexts complicate a single understanding of content moderation online. Players must weigh political expression against safety, clash over what counts as “newsworthy,” and pitch policy solutions—from age-gating and protest shields to transparency archives. 

The game consists of two distinct scenarios, one focused on controversial speech by politicians in Cambodia and Pakistan, and the other on controversial speech by protestors in Colombia and Iran. Instructors can choose to use either of these scenarios independently, or use both together. In the workshop on July 29th, we will play through both scenarios. 

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REVOLTING NUNS
Revolting Nuns: Rebellion at Sainte-Croix, 590 examines an exciting historical moment: from 589-590, a group of forty nuns at the Abbey of Sainte-Croix in Poitiers, France rebelled against their abbess for months. They hired troops, kidnapped their abbess, stole the abbey's relic, and refused to disband until soldiers defeated them. This game places rival factions of Sainte-Croix's nuns in the tribunal that followed the rebellion. Bishops hear from the abbess and the rebels to determine who was at fault, why, and what penalties should be imposed. The game examines powerful and active roles for early medieval women as they wrestled with questions about who should lead a prominent monastery.

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$65 for non-members

SCHEDULE

Tuesday, July 29 1 pm - 3:30 pm Eastern

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