Performing self, performing character: Exploring gender performativity in online role-playing games.

Online narrative (fiction-based) role-playing games and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) provide a ludic structure in which role players enact the gender and sexuality of their avatars. To investigate how role players perceive and perform their avatars' gender and sexuality...

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Publicado en:	Transformative Works & Cultures Vol. 11; pp. 9 - 10
Autor principal:	Osborne, Heather
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Organization for Transformative Works - Karen Hellekson 2012
Materias:	Roleplaying games Gender Human sexuality Roleplayers (Gamers) Multiplayer games Interpersonal relations
Acceso en línea:	Ver este registro en EBSCOhost