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13
Jan

Playing woman – Part 1: Gender performativity

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An exploration of gender performativity as a backbone to a future study of the theatrical nature of gender-play in massively multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPG).   We suffer from an overwhelming need to label everything. If we can’t identify it, pin it to a chart and attach a name to it, we get confused, frustrated and sometimes angry. In online […]

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15
Jul

Women and gaming: cultural myths & their impact on society

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The following is an essay written by Virginia Streit as part of course work for her Master of Communication degree. Virginia loves gaming and is particularly a fan of Halo and Knights of the Old Republic.   The cultural myth that video games are played almost exclusively by males is perpetuated by game design and player […]

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