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Gendered Barriers to Participation in Gaming Culture

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Crystle Martin,

Matthew RafalowAuthors Info & Claims

GenderIT '15: Proceedings of the Third Conference on GenderIT

Pages 49 - 52

https://doi.org/10.1145/2807565.2807713

Published: 24 April 2015 Publication History

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Existing scholarship on gender in gaming does not well consider social structural factors, instead either psychologizing gender issues or rendering it an insignificant variable altogether [1]. Thus, we aim to build on this literature by focusing our analytical frame on conditions of gaming environments that may spur unequal participation by gender. In this paper, we describe the variety of intersections that can occur between interest, gaming communities, and gender, as well as how these intersections impact womens' ability to interact and access the learning potential of these environments.

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Ahmadi MEilert RWeibert AWulf VMarsden N(2020)"We want to push the industry via communication"... Designing Communication Measures to Foster Gender Diversity in a Video Game CompanyProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/33751964:GROUP(1-26)Online publication date: 4-Jan-2020
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Ahmadi MEilert RWeibert AWulf VMarsden NArnedo JNacke LVanden Abeele VToups Dugas P(2019)Hacking Masculine Cultures - Career Ambitions of Female Young Professionals in a Video Game CompanyProceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play10.1145/3311350.3347186(413-426)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2019
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