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Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live

Name: Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live
ISBN: 9781040115190

Theoretical Perspectives from the Virtual Margins—10th Anniversary Edition

Kishonna L. Gray,

120 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live

Theoretical Perspectives from the Virtual Margins—10th Anniversary Edition

Kishonna L. Gray,

About this book

By focusing on the experiences of users, gamers, and audiences inside one of the world's largest gaming communities (Xbox Live), this book provides an overview of the landscape, architecture, and socio-technical structure of console gaming. Building on previous research regarding race, gender, and technology, it provides a much-needed intersectional approach to virtual gaming communities. It draws from a wide breadth of disciplines and interviews with minoritized and marginalized users to offer an overview of the virtual oppressions these individuals navigate and resist.

In this 10th Anniversary Edition, author Kishonna L. Gray introduces the audience to a perspective on console gaming environments called "Multi-mediated Interactive Console Environments." This new chapter provides a necessary understanding of these dynamic digital communities, adding console games, which have been heretofore left out of conversations on gaming, to platform studies, and addressing troubling examples on race, gender, and other identities. While the majority of scholarship on gaming comes from disciplines related to media studies and communication, it is imperative that other scholars engage the narrative and help move the focus on gaming beyond acts of violence or as a space that propels the military–industrial complex.

By bringing together cultural studies, criminology, media studies, game studies, and others, this text offers interdisciplinary approaches to making sense of not only the technology and its impact on users and cultures but also the impact that (sub) cultures have had on gaming. It is essential reading for scholars and practitioners seeking solutions to some of gaming's biggest challenges such as how to reduce harm in online gaming.

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