{"product_id":"gamer-trouble-feminist-confrontations-in-digital-culture-paperback","title":"Gamer Trouble: Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmanda Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eComplicating perspectives on diversity in video games\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGamers 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 \u003ci\u003eGamer Trouble\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy centering the insights of queer and women of color feminisms in readings of online harassment campaigns, industry animation practices, and popular video games like \u003ci\u003ePortal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMass Effect\u003c\/i\u003e, Phillips adds essential analytical tools to our conversations about video games. She embraces the trouble that attends disciplinary crossroads, linking the violent hate speech of trolls and the representational practices marginalizing people of color, women, and queers in entertainment media to the dehumanizing logic undergirding computation and the optimization strategies of gameplay. From the microcosmic level of electricity and flicks of a thumb to the grand stages of identity politics and global capitalism, wherever gamers find themselves, gamer trouble follows. As reinvigorated forms of racism, sexism, and homophobia thrive in games and gaming communities, Phillips follows the lead of those who have been making good trouble all along, agitating for a better world.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52765764256051,"sku":"9781479834921","price":65.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TGVBTnViZmFpdmVZM1YzajRmYmZhZz09.webp?v=1764630448","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/gamer-trouble-feminist-confrontations-in-digital-culture-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}