Ethnographies of the Videogame

Gender, Narrative and Praxis

Helen Thornham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-25338-4 (ISBN)

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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. Addressing questions of how we interpret, mediate and use media texts, particularly in the face of claims about the power of new media to continuously shift the parameters of lived experience, gaming is employed as a 'tool' through which we can understand the gendered and socio-culturally constructed phenomenon of our everyday engagement with media. 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 (gendered, sexed, and classed) power relationships within households. As such, it reveals the manner in which existing relations re-emerge through engagement with new technology. Offering an empirically grounded understanding of what goes on when we mediate technology and media in our everyday lives Ethnographies of the Videogame is more than a timely intervention into game studies. It provides pertinent and reflexive commentary on the relationship between text and audience, highlighting the relationships of gender and power in gaming practice. As such, it will appeal to scholars interested in media and new media, gender and class, and the sociology of leisure.

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

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;

Erscheinungsdatum	07.09.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-25338-3 / 1138253383
ISBN-13	978-1-138-25338-4 / 9781138253384
Zustand	Neuware