Social Exclusion, Power, and Video Game Play - New Research in Digital Media and Technology

This book represents cutting-edge research that addresses major issues of social exclusion, power and liberatory fantasies in virtual play. Specifically, the scope of the book examines three areas of concern: social psychological implications of virtual gameplay; reproduction and contestation of social inequality in virtual realms.

List of contents

Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction to Social Exclusion, Power and Video Game Play
David G. Embrick, J. Talmadge Wright and Andras Lukacs
Part II. Social-Psychological Implications of Virtual Play
Chapter 2: Marking the Territory: Grand Theft Auto IV as a Playground for Masculinities
Elena Bertozzi
Chapter 3: Discursive Engagements in World of Warcraft: A Semiotic Analysis of Player Relationships
Elizabeth ErkenBrack
Chapter 4: The Intermediate Ego - The Location of the Mind at Play
Vanessa Long
Chapter 5: Producing the Social in Virtual Realms
J. Talmadge Wright
Part III. Social Inequalities in Video Game Spaces: Race, Gender, and Virtual Play
Chapter 6: Racism in Gaming: Connecting Extremist and Mainstream Expressions of White Supremacy
Jessie Daniels and Nick LaLone
Chapter 7: Worlds of Whiteness: Race and Character Creation in Online Games
David Dietrich
Chapter 8: Gendered Pleasures: The Wii, Embodiment and Technological Desire
Adrienne Massanari
Chapter 9: Sincere Fictions of Whiteness in Virtual Worlds: How Fantasy Massively Multiplayer Online Games Perpetuate Colorblind, White Supremacist Ideology
Joel Ritsema and Bhoomi Thakore
Chapter 10: The Goddess Paradox: Hyper-resonance Shaping Gender Experiences in MMORPGs
Zek Cypress Valkyrie
Part IV. Game Fans Speak Out
Chapter 11: To Play is to Design: An Analysis of Player/Designer Interactions in World of Warcraft
Sean C. Duncan
Chapter 12: Western Otaku: Games Crossing Cultures
Mia Consalvo
Chapter 13: Beyond the Virtual Realm: Fallout fans, Producers, and the Troublesome Issue of Ownership in Videogame Fandom
R.M. Milner
Part V. Summary and Conclusions
Chapter 14: Conclusion
Andras Lukacs, David G. Embrick, and J. Talmadge Wright

About the author

Edited by David G. Embrick; Talmadge J. Wright and Andras Lukacs

Product details

• Authors: David G. Wright Embrick
• Assisted by: David G. Embrick (Editor), Embrick David G. (Editor), Andras Lukacs (Editor), Lukacs Andras (Editor), Talmadge J. Wright (Editor), Wright Talmadge J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.10.2013
• EAN: 9780739138618
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-3861-8
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies