Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming - Analysing Reddit's r/gaming Community (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	November 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Marcus Maloney • Steven Roberts • Timothy Graham
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	104
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-028261-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
LSN:	3-03-028261-9
Barcode:	9783030282615

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