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The Unbearable Whiteness of Board Games

I used to work in multinational communication agencies. Later, I worked in senior leadership positions focused on market expansion, and…

Feb 27, 2022

The image of two photoreal dice on a black background

Feb 27, 2022

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Dr. Tanya Pobuda

Girls Do(n’t) Play Games?: Re-visiting H.G. Wells Little Wars 106 Years Later

A long time ago, as a shy 12-year-old, I mustered up the courage to ask a boy if I could join his Dungeons and Dragons club. Games were too…

Dec 6, 2021

H. G. Wells playing a wargame with W. Britain toy soldiers.

Dec 6, 2021

Dr. Tanya Pobuda

Hate the Carbon Tax? You Might Not Know What’s Really Going On…

CPC and Pierre are really banking on Canadians being completely financially illiterate… And from the polling, it seems like this might be a…

Mar 22

Hate the Carbon Tax? You Might Not Know What’s Really Going On…

Mar 22

Dr. Tanya Pobuda

Oatmeal Every Day, Forever: The Myth of Homophily in Marketing

What if every day of your life was the same? You listened to the same song. Watched the same show. Played the same game. Wore the same…

Feb 23

A bowl of oatmeal in a beige bowl.

Feb 23

Dr. Tanya Pobuda

Disneyland, ‘Moonies’, and Climate Change… A True Story

🤫🤫Psst… True story time.

Feb 22

Disneyland, ‘Moonies’, and Climate Change… A True Story

Feb 22

Dr. Tanya Pobuda

Like Modern Boardgames? Thank Africa, the Middle East and Asia…

The first known instance of the English phrase “board game” being used in print was in 1854 (Merriam-Webster, 2020). The Merriam-Webster…

Feb 18

Like Modern Boardgames? Thank Africa, the Middle East and Asia…

Feb 18

Dr. Tanya Pobuda

Star Trek: A Cure For Doomerism or A Dire Warning of What’s to Come?

🚀Last week was one of the worst weeks I’ve had in a very, very long time. So, to cheer ourselves up, my partner and I have been rewatching…

Feb 17

Data (Brent Spiner) with Ard’rian McKenzie played by Eileen Seeley. The caption reads, “Apparently that is not correct”

Feb 17

Dr. Tanya Pobuda

Warriors of the Status Quo: Fighting With Fossil Fuel Apologists Online

🌍💬I’ve been arguing with climate change deniers on LinkedIn for a few months now as a kind of thought experiment. I hoped I’d learn…

Feb 16

Warriors of the Status Quo: Fighting With Fossil Fuel Apologists Online

Feb 16

Dr. Tanya Pobuda

Young People Will Save Us But They Shouldn’t Have To…

🧠💫I don’t think anything in my life or career prepared me for the kind of cognitive dissonance I’d experience watching higher education…

Feb 14

an empty postsecondary lecture hall

Feb 14

Dr. Tanya Pobuda

Moral Panics …and the Terrified Men Who Drive Them

👻🙀We are seeing moral panics against cultural progress, social change and technological innovation pop up like the 🔥wildfires caused by…

Feb 14

A vintage photo of men sitting in the stands at an event. They are wearing bowler hats and three-piece suits.

Feb 14

Dr. Tanya Pobuda

Dr. Tanya Pobuda

Board game academic, licensed drone pilot, artificial intelligence chatbot creator, and virtual and augmented reality practitioner.

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