?This book examines gender attitudes in Reddit’s popular video gaming community subreddit, r/gaming. Video gaming has long been understood as a masculinised social space and, while increasing numbers of girls and women now engage in the pastime, boys and men remain the predominant social actors. Furthermore, the gaming community has been widely identified as a prime case study in broader concerns around ‘toxic’ masculinity and gendered online harassment. However, there is also underexamined evidence of a growing movement in the community coming forward to voice its collective opposition. Utilising an innovative combination of computational and qualitative methods, the research undertaken here exposes this fuller picture, revealing significant contestation and a spectrum of attitudes that mark out this popular gaming community as a battleground for gender (in)equality. Students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, media studies, cultural studies, sociology, games studies and computer sciences, will find this book of interest.
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Idle Hands, (Folk) Devil's Playthings |
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Data Collection and Text Processing |
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Discussion of Methodology |
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2 Hegemonic, Inclusive and Geek Masculinities |
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Geek Masculinity As Hegemonic Masculinity'? |
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Adding to Connell's Tools |
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Voting and Sentiment Analysis |
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Topic Model Analysis of `Masculine Gendered' /r/Gaming Comments |
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Topic Model Analysis of `Feminine Gendered' /r/Gaming Comments |
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4 Masculine Discourses in r/gaming |
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`I'm Very Glad Ton Enjoyed This Game but I Actually Hate It' |
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`I'm So Confused Why I'm Failing. I WAS Following the Damn Train' |
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5 Feminine Discourses in r/gaming |
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`Half Naked Women Make Literally Every Single Thing Better' |
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`If You Weren't Female They'd Harass Tou for Something Else' |
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`Not Even If Tou Were The Last Dudeguy on Earth' |
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Battlegrounds and Contestations |
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Marcus Maloney is Lecturer in Sociology, Coventry University, UK. Steven Roberts is Associate Professor in Sociology, Monash University, Australia. Timothy Graham is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
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