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Growing Up Gamers : = Female Leisure in Digital Games Culture.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Growing Up Gamers :/
Reminder of title:	Female Leisure in Digital Games Culture.
Author:	Orme, Stephanie.
Description:	1 online resource (200 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-12A(E).
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780438135505

Growing Up Gamers : = Female Leisure in Digital Games Culture.
Orme, Stephanie.

Growing Up Gamers :Female Leisure in Digital Games Culture. - 1 online resource (200 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-12(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Pennsylvania State University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation explores possible explanations and complexities surrounding women's relationship with leisure and video games. One of my objectives with this study is to understand how women players view their relationship with gaming: how they become involved with video games, how gaming fits into their adult lives (specifically, as wives, mothers, etc.), and the reasons they play games. Primarily, I am interested in how women's reported experiences with games affirm or challenge dominant narratives about their experiences. After surveying more than 3,000 women players and conducting 21 follow-up interviews, I discuss trends in women's video game play, including their genre and play style preferences, motivations for playing games, the extent that they consider themselves "gamers", and how their relationships with gaming have evolved over the course of the lives. Specifically, I investigate how gendered constraints on women's access to and enjoyment of leisure time influence the reported trends in women's gaming experience. I argue that such trends, which are often framed as "natural" gender-based affinities for certain types of games or ways of experiencing games, might be influenced by broader social contexts such as gender socialization, the nature of women's leisure time, constraints placed upon their play such as physical and virtual spaces that restrict access based on gender, and the ambivalent relationship many women players have with the games industry. Scholars interested in gender-based motivations and preferences in digital games should continue to explore the various constraints that are imposed on players of different gender identities. I believe the key to understanding the complexities of how gaming decisions are made relies on researchers' ability to examine the interplay of multiple, sometimes competing constraints.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780438135505Subjects--Topical Terms:

556422
Communication.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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