Gender and sexuality in online game cultures [electronic resource] : passionate play / Jenny Sunde?n and Malin Sveningsson.
- 作者: Sunde?n, Jenny 1973-
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- 其他題名:
- Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality ;
- Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality ;
- 出版: New York : Routledge 2012.
- 叢書名: Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality ;8
- 主題: Internet games--Social aspects , Internet and women , Electronic books
- ISBN: 9780203143148 (ebook) 、 9780415897662 (hbk.)
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- 書目註:Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-227) and index.
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- 系統號: 005213100 | 機讀編目格式
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摘要註
"How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? Why is it important to explore "straight" versus "queer" contexts of play? And what does it mean to play together with others over time, as co-players and researchers? Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures is a book about female players and their passionate encounters with the online game World of Warcraft and its player cultures. It takes seriously women's passions in games, and as such draws attention to questions of pleasure in and desire for technology. The authors use a unique approach of what they term a "twin ethnography" that develops two parallel stories. Sveningsson studies "straight" game culture, and makes explicit that which is of the norm by exploring the experiences of female gamers in a male-dominated gaming context. Sunde?n investigates "queer" game culture through the queer potentials of mainstream World of Warcraft culture, as well as through the case of a guild explicitly defined as LGBT.Academic research on game culture is flourishing, yet feminist accounts of gender and sexuality in games are still in the making. Drawing on feminist notions of performance, performativity and positionality, as well as the recent turn to affect and phenomenology within cultural theory, the authors develop queer, feminist studies of online player cultures in ways that are situated and embodied"--Provided by publisher.
內容註
1. Go with your passion! / Malin Sveningsson 2. The more the merrier! / Malin Sveningsson 3. The straight game / Malin Sveningsson 4. Playing along / Malin Sveningsson 5. Desires at play / Jenny Sunde?n 6. A feel of play / Jenny Sunde?n 7. Coming home and coming out / Jenny Sunde?n 8. A queer eye on transgressive play / Jenny Sunde?n.