From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures of systematic exploitation and oppression. Whether visible in the persistent color line that shapes the production, dissemination, and legitimization of dominant stereotypes within the industry itself, or in the dehumanizing representations often found within game spaces, many video games perpetuate injustice and mirror the inequities and violence that permeate society as a whole. Drawing from groundbreaking research on counter and oppositional gaming and from popular games such as World of Warcraft and Tomb Raider, Woke Gaming examines resistance to problematic spaces of violence, discrimination, and microaggressions in gaming culture. The contributors of these essays seek to identify strategies to detox gaming culture and orient players and gamers toward progressive ends. From Anna Anthropy's Keep Me Occupied to Momo Pixel's Hair Nah, video games can reveal the power and potential for marginalized communities to resist, and otherwise challenge dehumanizing representations inside and outside of game spaces. In a moment of #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, and efforts to transform current political realities, Woke Gaming illustrates the power and potential of video games to foster change and become a catalyst for social justice.

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University of Washington Press

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Discrimination & Race Relations

Index

Social Sciences

Part 

1

Ethics, 

Violence, 

and

Oppositional 

Gaming 

27

CHAPTER 

1

THE

CORPOREAL 

ETHICS 

OF

GAMING

Vulnerability, 

Mobility, 

and

Social 

Gaming 

rob

CovEr

G

aminG 

has

traditionaLLy 

been 

viewed 

in

public-sphere 

accounts 

as

an

unethical 

activity, 

external 

or

oppositional 

to

social 

justice 

claims 

related 

to

the

equitable 

distribution 

of

wealth 

and

oppor-

tunity 

and

the

inclusiveness 

for

all

in

terms 

of

genders 

and

minority 

status. 

Indeed, 

gaming 

is

often 

broadly 

depicted 

within 

a

masculine 

frame-

work 

of

violence 

and

domination, 

whether 

that 

be

the

violence 

portrayed 

in

single-person 

shooter 

games; 

the

militaristic 

basis 

of

the

single-person 

mode 

of

gaming 

(McKosker 

2013, 

157); 

the

racialized 

and

gender 

stereo-

typing 

in

game 

content 

(Leonard 

2006); 

the

perceived 

risks 

to

younger 

people 

participating 

in

networked 

gaming 

and

online 

encounters 

with 

strangers 

(Haddon 

and

Livingstone 

2014, 

4);

or

the

notions 

that 

playing 

short-term 

social 

games 

is

an

unproductive 

activity 

in

which 

users 

expend 

unnecessary 

time 

while 

having 

ﬁnance 

or

data 

extracted 

(Rossi 

2009). 

In

these 

cases, 

the

focus 

on

gaming 

as

an

unethical 

activity 

that 

excludes 

social 

justice 

is

based 

on

its

representation

and

content

:

the

narratives, 

the

on-screen 

setting, 

the

required 

actions 

to

perform 

in

the

game, 

or

the

view 

Cover
WOKE GAMING
Title
Copyright
Dedication
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION. Not a Post-Racism and Post-Misogyny Promised Land: Video Games as Instruments of (In)Justice
PART 1. ETHICS, VIOLENCE, AND OPPOSITIONAL GAMING
PART 2. ECONOMICS OF GAMING
PART 3: FEMINIST GAMING
PART 4: GAMING AGAINST THE GRAIN
PART 5: EMPATHETIC AND INCLUSIVE GAMING
List of Contributors
Index

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