Why playing video games can lead girls to success | Nanea Reeves | TEDxOrangeCoast
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Nanea Reeves shares with us how girls can use video games to succeed in the life and careers. Borrowing from Shakespeare, she shares insight on girls can play the game and not be played.
Shakespeare, girls, and video games.
Recognized by Digital Media Wire as one of the 25 Executives to Watch, Nanea brings over 15 years experience in digital distribution, video game technologies and mobile application development. Nanea Reeves is the current President & COO of TextPlus, one of the top mobile communications applications on iOS and Android platforms.
Prior to joining TextPlus, Nanea was the COO of Machinima, an online video network focused on video games.
Nanea has also served as Chief Strategy and Product Officer at Gaikai, a cloud gaming company acquired by Sony Playstation. Before Gaikai, Nanea was SVP/COO, Global Online for Electronic Arts, and SVP of Enabling Technologies of JAMDAT Mobile, a mobile games company that EA acquired in 2006.
Nanea began her career in entertainment marketing and advertising. She is actively involved in her husband's non-profit karmablast.org and holds a Board of Directors position for Friendly House Los Angeles.
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My wife Nanea is an amazing compassionate person but I have always suspected she is actually a 14 year-old boy in disguise who has no problem killing endless streams of zombies.
Yes, yes, yes! Why doesn't the main stream media realize these skills. Hopefully, more girls get familiar with games through popularity on the internet
You have to lose repeatedly in order to win." For a moment there, Bloodborne came to mind.
Great talk, with some great points about how learning strategy in video gaming might help girls do better in their careers. A couple of cautions, though. One reason women don't do as well in business is a little thing called institutional sexism. It's real, and progress needs to be made on that front, also. And I also think that women can be very strategic, but sometimes it's not the same kind of strategy that men pursue--it tends to focus more on cooperation than on competition, and when women are in charge cooperation may work just as well as competition. When men are in charge, granted, competition may work better. Men and women alike should be better at both competition and cooperation.
You should mention the field of programming was entirely forged by women. Read the book, The Innovators, for a great history of it.
Ya girls play video games to!
How do you like Minecraft, Nanea?
First!
I'ts awesome that women can succeed in a men's arena if they choose to. But most women do what they've done for millennia, and that is being wives, mothers and grandmothers. That's not letting the game play them either, it's just the role of those who give birth and those whom are natural nurturers naturally in nature itself. Should men be seeking to find a place in motherhood because only 9% of men are stay at home dads? (I don't know what the true figure is, I just used the statistic for comparison with women in engineering, compared to men) In my opinion, the nurturer of tha family is the most important job in the entire world above engineering, inventor, architect etc. Men have limitations that women don't and this is a very good thing, but women don't have to feel the need to compete with men. A good man completes a good woman, as a good woman completes a good man. A man can never give birth, and if one day he does through science, he'll have an awful lot of catching up to do in the arena of motherhood, but why reinvent the wheel?