Videogames and participation

You all know how much I am always trying to explore possibility to use videogames in educational settings, as a tool to improve participation, inclusion and learning. I was very happy when I was asked by the European resource center SALTO Information and Participation, based in Estonia, to collect and describe a few practices of...

The Mastodon in the room

Mastodon is a distributed social media platform, based on free and open source software developed by a German group of hackers / developers. It is quite similar to Twitter on the external layer, but completely different under the trunk: it works as a federation of different servers (instances) that anyone could setup and connect to...

Elves and mermaids of color. And more.

It seems that everybody is discussing about elves and mermaids of color these days. Until a few years ago instead, the controversies raising when some nerdish stories would reach mainstream and become a movie or a cartoon, were only confined in some dark corners of the interwebs.Star Wars fandom was usually the circuit where this...