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Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures Passionate Play
246 Pages
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Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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."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)
