Several months ago, Dmitri Williams sent word on the internet about his collaborative content analysis work on video game characters. His words were about the gender and racial representations of video game characters and how white and adult male characters are the majority in video games whereas female and minority group characters were under represented. [...]
Archive for the ‘Gender’ Category
The virtual census: the female body in video games (Martins et al., 2009)
Posted in Gender, Video games on November 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Women and the time to play video games (Winn & Heeter, 2009)
Posted in Gender, Motivation and Emotion, Video games on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When this news article drop in the inbox, I was perpelxed as to how this study slipped past my alerts. It was Springerlink… again. Would not be so much trouble if the articles were arranged in chronological order or that the left side of the menu have more options and drop boxes? The search engine [...]
Gendered video game violence (Vorpal Bunny Ranch, 2008)
Posted in Gender, Video games on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Spotted this post on kotaku written by academician Maggie Greene, she referred to the Vorpal Bunny Ranch about how gender difference affects the perceptions of video game violence among players. I’m adding this because the post conjured up many research ideas that I might want to discuss with several psych academicians in the near future.
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