Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures: Passionate Play

ISBN-13: 9780415897662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 246 str.

Jenny Sund N.; Malin Sveningsson

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"Useful, timely, and accessible... Routledge has published a valuable addition to the growing literature elucidating the experience of often-invisible, often-ignored minorities among the largely homogenousmass of online gamers." - Dorothea Salo, Feminist Collections, Voulme 33(3)

Spis treści

Introduction: Into the Game  Jenny Sundén and Malin Sveningsson  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 Sundén  6. A Feel of Play  Jenny Sundén  7. Coming Home and Coming Out  Jenny Sundén  8. A Queer Eye on Transgressive Play  Jenny Sundén  Closing Chapter: Writing a Twin Ethnography  Malin Sveningsson and Jenny Sundén

O autorze

Jenny Sundén is Associate Professor in the Department of Media Technology at the School of Computer Science and Communication, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm.

Malin Sveningsson is Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University.