Push Play, SONGYEE YOON
Push Play, SONGYEE YOON
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Push Play
Gaming For a Better World

Author: SONGYEE YOON

Narrator: Kymberli Colbourne

Unabridged: 3 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/26/2024


Synopsis

Play is in our DNA.We game to experiment and to learn. We play to create new worlds so we can change this one. Gaming pushes us to imagine what we can become. In Push Play: Gaming for a Better World, Dr. Songyee Yoon describes how gaming can help us craft a better world together.Yoon is president and Chief Strategy Officer of NCSOFT, a global video game company based in South Korea. Yoon’s work lies at the intersection of expertise and equity in emerging technologies. As a leader in the industry, Dr. Yoon shares her experience as a woman in STEM and her quest for a more diverse and equitable tech community.Through stories from her career in the gaming industry, she outlines how innovations in gaming push industries forward and create a more equitable world for all.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Almiria on April 21, 2024

Have you always thought of gaming and tech as men’s fields? Do you consider gaming to be a waste of time? All this is about to change with “Push Play” by Songyee Yoon. This book is a fascinating combination of personal experience and inter-industry review of the gaming and STEM worlds by Dr. Yoon, a......more

Goodreads review by Mariana on April 26, 2024

This book is an innovative exploration of gaming's potential to drive positive change globally. The author, an important figure in the gaming industry, challenges clichés and advocates for inclusivity, particularly for women in STEM fields. I enjoyed that through engaging stories and expert insights......more

Goodreads review by Agustina on April 22, 2024

This book can be life-changing in the hands of a little girl pursuing her goals. Dr. Yoon, the author, shares her own experience in this male-dominated field that is gaming and her quest for a more diverse and equitable tech community. Nowadays, luckily for us girls, we have started to achieve new p......more

Goodreads review by Saya on April 24, 2024

Playing is such a big part of life, but we as humans tend to underestimate the importance of it. We tend to see it as something useless or a waste of time. But this book really changed my mind on that. I loved the use of nature and its elements to explain why playing is so important. For instance, t......more

Goodreads review by Dani on April 26, 2024

In Push Play, the author offers an eye-opening and transformative vision of the video game industry, challenging the common perception that play is a trivial activity. In this writing, she draws on her extensive experience to argue how video games can be powerful tools for social change and inclusio......more