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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Published in:	Transformative Works & Cultures Vol. 11; pp. 9 - 10
Main Author:	Osborne, Heather
Format:	Article
Published:	Organization for Transformative Works - Karen Hellekson 2012
Subjects:	Roleplaying games Gender Human sexuality Roleplayers (Gamers) Multiplayer games Interpersonal relations
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