Nicholas (Hrsg.) Taylor

Queerness in Play

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Queerness in Play examines the many ways queerness of all kinds-from queer as 'LGBT' to other, less well-covered aspects of the queer spectrum-intersects with games and the social contexts of play. The current unprecedented visibility of queer creators and content comes at a high tide of resistance to the inclusion of those outside a long-imagined cisgender, heterosexual, white male norm. By critically engaging the ways games-as a culture, an industry, and a medium-help reproduce limiting binary formations of gender and sexuality, Queerness in Play contributes to the growing body of scholarship promoting more inclusive understandings of ident… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Harper, Todd (Hrsg.) / Adams, Meghan Blythe (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-90542-6
EAN: 9783319905426
Produktnummer: 29174412
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 4'492 KB

Über den Autor

Todd Harper is Assistant Professor in the Division of Science, Information Arts and Technologies at the University of Baltimore, USA. His research centers on games as culture and communication.Meghan Blythe Adams is a PhD Candidate at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Their research interests include representations of androgyny in media, as well as death and difficulty in games. Their work has appeared in Loading, Kinephanos, and First Person Scholar.Nicholas Taylor is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University, USA. His work applies critical, feminist, and socio-technical perspectives to experimental and mixed-methods research with digital gaming communities.