Producing Alternative Gender Orders: A Critical Look at Girls and Gaming

Autor/inn/en	Fisher, Stephanie; Jenson, Jennifer
Titel	Producing Alternative Gender Orders: A Critical Look at Girls and Gaming
Quelle	In: Learning, Media and Technology, 42 (2017) 1, S.87-99 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1743-9884
DOI	10.1080/17439884.2016.1132729
Schlagwörter	Females; Gender Bias; Social Bias; Video Games; Cultural Influences; Gender Differences; Participation; Design; Power Structure; Social Influences; Feminism; Sexual Harassment; Foreign Countries; Summer Programs; Adolescents; Ethnography; Surveys; Semi Structured Interviews; Observation; Video Technology; Audio Equipment; Mentors; Canada (Toronto) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Geschlechterstereotyp; Video game; Videospiel; Videospiele; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Geschlechterkonflikt; Teilnahme; Sozialer Einfluss; Feminismus; Sexuelle Belästigung; Ausland; Sommerkurs; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Ethnografie; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Beobachtung; Audio-CD
Abstract	This article examines some of the ways in which girls are discursively set up as subordinate in relation to boys and men by and within the digital games industry and culture at large, and how they push back on these imposed subjects positions when engaging in media production (game development) under both regular and inverse conditions. Expanding on our previous research on gender and game play, this project explores how the hegemonic discourses of female participation in games culture are taken up by girls who want to make their own digital games. We employ a poststructural understanding of gender and power as fluid and produced through and within social relations to demonstrate how participants are not helpless victims of subjection. Rather, these girls are active in the construction of their own subjectivities, leveraging different aspects of their identity and/or exercising an institutionally sanctioned (albeit temporary) autonomy to resist discursive positioning. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01