Gamer Trouble by Amanda Phillips PAPERBACK 9781479834921

Name: Gamer Trouble by Amanda Phillips PAPERBACK 9781479834921
Brand: New York University Press

New York University Press

Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games Gamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our popular understanding of \""gamer\"" shifts beyond its historical construction as a white, straight, adolescent, cisgender male, the troubles that emerge both confirm and challenge our understanding of identity politics. In Gamer Trouble, Amanda Phillips excavates the turbulent relationships between surface and depth in contemporary gaming culture, taking readers under the hood of the mechanisms of video games in order to understand the ways that difference gets baked into its technological, ludic, ideological, and social systems.\nBy centering the insights of queer and women of color feminisms in readings of online harassment campaigns, industry animation practices, and\n\nGamer Trouble\nFeminist Confrontations in Digital Culture\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease n;