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Phillips, Amanda Denise.

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Gamer Trouble: The Dynamics of Difference in Video Games.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gamer Trouble: The Dynamics of Difference in Video Games./
Author:	Phillips, Amanda Denise.
Description:	224 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-03A(E).
Subject:	Multimedia communications. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3645682
ISBN:	9781321349931

Gamer Trouble: The Dynamics of Difference in Video Games.
Phillips, Amanda Denise.

Gamer Trouble: The Dynamics of Difference in Video Games. - 224 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014.

"Gamer Trouble" maps an approach to studying sociocultural difference in video games that puts material gaming technologies and design practices into conversation with feminist, queer, and critical race theory. The dissertation addresses these conversations in ways that move beyond diversity politics, engaging the technical, ludic, and cultural frameworks that underwrite the video games industry and contribute to its problematic representations and relationships. "Gamer Trouble" takes a layered approach to these complicated issues, investigating facial animation and customization technology in light of the historical scientific and philosophical treatments of the (racialized and gendered) human face, engaging feminist approaches to visual power by incorporating the procedural aspects of gaming into existing feminist film theory through an analysis of Platinum Games' Bayonetta and Valve Corporation's Portal, and interrogating the discursive practices of both fan and academic communities when publicly engaging questions of difference and social justice. Closing with a reading of BioWare's science fiction roleplaying series, Mass Effect, which deploys progressive strategies of diversity while incorporating difference into a hegemonic frame, the dissertation shows how "gamer trouble" can manifest in myriad ways, ultimately demonstrating the continued relevance of humanistic approaches to technology, identity, and social justice in a supposedly post-feminist, post-racial age.

ISBN: 9781321349931Subjects--Topical Terms:

590562
Multimedia communications.

Gamer Trouble: The Dynamics of Difference in Video Games.
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