Gamer trouble : feminist confrontations in digital culture / Amanda Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Amanda Denise, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games.

Internet and women.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Computers and women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 237 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2020].

Summary:

Gamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our popular understanding of 'gamer' shifts beyond its historical construction as a white, straight, adolescent, cisgender male, the troubles that emerge both confirm and challenge our understanding of identity politics. Phillips excavates the turbulent relationships between surface and depth in contemporary gaming culture, taking readers under the hood of the mechanisms of video games in order to understand the ways that difference gets baked into its technological, ludic, ideological, and social systems. By centring the insights of queer and women of colour feminisms in readings of online harassment campaigns, industry animation practices, and popular video games like Portal and Mass Effect, Phillips adds essential analytical tools to our conversations about video games.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

1. Of Dickwolves and Killjoys: Feminism and Interpretative Violence in Gaming Communities

2. Making a Face: Quantizing Reality in Character Animation and Customization

3. Gender, Power, and the Gamic Gaze: Re- viewing Portal and Bayonetta

4. Does Anyone Really Identify with FemShep? Troubling Identity (and) Politics in Mass Effect

Conclusion: Playing the Long Game

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9781479806522

1479806528

OCLC:

1147272126