Helen Thornham

Ethnographies of the Videogame

Gender, Narrative and PRAXIS

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Produktbeschreibung

Ethnographies of the Videogame uses the medium of the videogame to explore wider significant sociological issues around new media, interaction, identity, performance, memory and mediation. The book is particularly concerned with issues of agency and power, identifying strong correlations between perceptions of gaming and actual gaming practices, as well as the reinforcement, through gaming, of established power relationships within households. Thornham provides pertinent and reflexive commentary highlighting the relationships of gender and power in gaming practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780754679783
• ISBN-10: 0754679780
• Artikelnr.: 41239356

Autorenporträt

Helen Thornham is Research Fellow at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introductions: Videogames, Gender, Ethnography
Chapter 2 Constructing a Gendered Gaming Identity
Chapter 3 Articulating Pleasure: Gender, Technology and Power
Chapter 4 The Practices of Gameplay
Chapter 5 Bodies and Action
Chapter 6 Pleasure and the Imagined Gamer
Chapter 7 Conclusions: Towards a Theory of Domestic Videogaming