Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming

Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming

by Marcus MaloneySteven Roberts and Timothy Graham
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 13/12/2019

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This book examines gender attitudes in Reddit’s popular video gaming community subreddit, r/gaming. Video gaming has long been understood as a masculinised social space and, while increasing numbers of girls and women now engage in the pastime, boys and men remain the predominant social actors. Furthermore, the gaming community has been widely identified as a prime case study in broader concerns around ‘toxic’ masculinity and gendered online harassment. However, there is also underexamined evidence of a growing movement in the community coming forward to voice its collective opposition. Utilising an innovative combination of computational and qualitative methods, the research undertaken here exposes this fuller picture, revealing significant contestation and a spectrum of attitudes that mark out this popular gaming community as a battleground for gender (in)equality. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, media studies, cultural studies, sociology, games studies and computer sciences, will find this book of interest.

ISBN:
9783030282622
9783030282622
Category:
Gender studies
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
13-12-2019
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing

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