Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming - Analysing Reddit's r/gaming Community

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.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Hegemonic, inclusive and geek masculinities.- 3. Computational survey.- 4. Masculine discourses in r/gaming.- 5. Feminine discourses in r/gaming.- 6. Conclusion.
 

About the author

Marcus Maloney is Lecturer in Sociology, Coventry University, UK.
Steven Roberts is Associate Professor in Sociology, Monash University, Australia.
Timothy Graham is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communication, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Graham, Marcus Maloney, Steven Roberts
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2019
• EAN: 9783030282615
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3028261-5
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 15 mm x 217 mm
• Weight: 250 g
• Illustrations: XI, 104 p. 7 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; C, Gender Studies, Gender, Culture, Sociology, biotechnology, Sociology, general, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender and Culture, Culture and Gender