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13
Apr

Playing woman – Part 2: Passing as a G.I.R.L

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In gender studies, ‘passing’ refers to the act of being able to get by, unquestioned, as either a man or a woman. In massively multiplayer online role playing games (MMORPG), passing happens on two fronts.   First, in the player’s ability to choose an avatar’s gender and to pass as that gender, regardless of whether or […]

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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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