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Playing with Culture: The Representa...

Wisniewski, Nicholas.

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Playing with Culture: The Representation of Native Americans in Video Games.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Playing with Culture: The Representation of Native Americans in Video Games./
Author:	Wisniewski, Nicholas.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	146 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International57-06(E).
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10821976
ISBN:	9780438015739

Playing with Culture: The Representation of Native Americans in Video Games.
Wisniewski, Nicholas.

Playing with Culture: The Representation of Native Americans in Video Games. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 146 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 57-06.

Thesis (M.A.)--Northern Arizona University, 2018.

In American society, the video game industry has continued to grow and has become an expansive and popular media format. In 2016 the Entertainment Software Association estimated that 63% of American households play video games with an average of 1.7 gamers in each family (ESA 2016), and it is not just the kids playing games. The average game player age today is 35 years old, with 41% being female gamers. Video games are now an important medium in which cultural perceptions are conveyed to members of both ethnic minorities and majorities in America. How are video games portraying who Native Americans are and what they are like? While some extensive anthropological studies have been conducted on the representation of race and ethnicity in video games (Brock 2011; Deskins 2013; Lammes 2010; Leonard 2003; Ortega-Grimaldo 2008; Sisler 2008), very few of them have focused on the representation of Native Americans.

ISBN: 9780438015739Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.

Playing with Culture: The Representation of Native Americans in Video Games.
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