{"id":12068,"date":"2015-10-28T17:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/?p=12068"},"modified":"2018-10-05T14:57:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T14:57:01","slug":"gaming-at-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2015\/10\/28\/gaming-at-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaming on the edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/files\/2015\/10\/ShawA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12099\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/files\/2015\/10\/ShawA.jpg\" alt=\"Adrienne Shaw\" width=\"110\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ensemblevideo contentid=5jx9Ms1ae0y_a2k99DidVg audio=true showcaptions=true displayAnnotations=true displayattachments=true audioPreviewImage=true]<\/p>\n<p>Concepts like identity, identification, and representation are thrown around pretty loosely when people try to explain the influence of popular media on individuals and groups. Categories like race, gender, sexuality, and class are widely recognized, broadly applicable and, because of this, they are often invoked as a substitute for more\u00a0nuanced thinking about how individuals relate to media, whether TV, film, or digital\u00a0games.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do gay men like particular TV shows because they include gay characters?<\/li>\n<li>Are women more likely to watch football now that there are (a few) female commentators?<\/li>\n<li>Why would women\u00a0play violent, misogynistic video games?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In\u00a0her new book, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/diamond.temple.edu\/record=b5718801~S30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(University of Minnesota Press, 2014), Adrienne Shaw complicates this approach\u00a0by studying &#8220;representation in in a way that takes into account the fluidity, performativity, and contextuality of identity categories.&#8221;\u00a0In a series of interviews with individuals from marginalized groups, Shaw, an avid digital\u00a0game player herself, attempts to situate game playing within the overall lived experiences of her subjects.\u00a0Through this indirect approach, she hoped to gain a better understanding of how, when, and why representation mattered. One of her main goals in writing this book is to help change the way academic and business researchers study identity, identification, and representation.\u00a0I spoke with Adrienne Shaw about her new book on July 11, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ensemble.temple.edu\/api\/content\/327d3ce6-5acd-4c7b-bf6b-693df4389d56\/download?withDisposition=true\">Download Audio<\/a><\/strong> (mp3)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/library.temple.edu\/about\/staff?search=rowland\">&#8212;Fred Rowland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ensemblevideo contentid=5jx9Ms1ae0y_a2k99DidVg audio=true showcaptions=true displayAnnotations=true displayattachments=true audioPreviewImage=true] Concepts like identity, identification, and representation are thrown around pretty loosely when people try to explain the influence of popular media on individuals and groups. Categories like race, gender, sexuality, and class are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2015\/10\/28\/gaming-at-the-edge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[108,3,78,29,81],"tags":[109,24,151,177,23],"class_list":["post-12068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-human-sciences","category-media","category-people","category-rowland","tag-interview","tag-podcast","tag-scholarly-communication","tag-talking-about-books","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}