abstract: Employing qualitative methods and drawing from an intersectional framework which focuses on the multiple identities we all embody, this dissertation focuses on oppressions and resistance strategies employed by women of color in Xbox live, an online gaming community. Ethnographic observations and narrative interviewing reveal that women of color, as deviants within the space, face intersecting oppressions in gaming as in life outside the gaming world. They are linguistically profiled within the space based off of how they sound. They have responded with various strategies to combat the discrimination they experience. Some segregate themselves from the larger gaming population and many refuse to purchase games that depict women in a hyper-sexualized manner or that present people of color stereotypically. For others, the solution is to "sit-in" on games and disrupt game flow by 'player-killing' or engage in other 'griefing' activities. I analyze this behavior in the context of Black feminist consciousness and resistance and uncover that these methods are similar to women who employ resistance strategies for survival within the real world. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Justice Studies 2011
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:9027 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Contributors | Gray, Kishonna Leah (Author), Anderson, Lisa M (Advisor), Cheong, Pauline H (Committee member), Lim, Merlyna (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Dissertation |
| Format | 187 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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