Shira Chess: Ready Player Two | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781517900694 | Ready Player Two | Women Gamers and Designed Identity | Shira Chess

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Cultural stereotypes to the contrary, approximately half of all video game players are now women. A subculture once dominated by men, video games have become a form of entertainment composed of gender binaries. Supported by games such as Diner Dash, Mystery Case Files, Wii Fit, and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood-which are all specifically marketed toward women-the gamer industry is now a major part of imagining what femininity should look like.

In Ready Player Two, media critic Shira Chess uses the concept of "Player Two"-the industry idealization of the female gamer-to examine the assumptions implicit in video games designed for women and how they have impacted gaming culture and the larger society. With Player Two, the video game industry has designed specifically for the feminine ideal: she is white, middle class, heterosexual, cis-gendered, and abled. Drawing on categories from time management and caregiving to social networking, consumption, and bodies, Chess examines how games have been engineered to shape normative ideas about women and leisure.

Ready Player Two presents important arguments about how gamers and game developers must change their thinking about both women and games to produce better games, better audiences, and better industry practices. Ultimately, this book offers vital prescriptions for how one of our most powerful entertainment industries must evolve its ideas of women.

Cultural stereotypes to the contrary, approximately half of all video game players are now women. A subculture once dominated by men, video games have become a form of entertainment composed of gender binaries. Supported by games such as Diner Dash, Mystery Case Files, Wii Fit, and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood-which are all specifically marketed toward women-the gamer industry is now a major part of imagining what femininity should look like.

In Ready Player Two, media critic Shira Chess uses the concept of "Player Two"-the industry idealization of the female gamer-to examine the assumptions implicit in video games designed for women and how they have impacted gaming culture and the larger society. With Player Two, the video game industry has designed specifically for the feminine ideal: she is white, middle class, heterosexual, cis-gendered, and abled. Drawing on categories from time management and caregiving to social networking, consumption, and bodies, Chess examines how games have been engineered to shape normative ideas about women and leisure.

Ready Player Two presents important arguments about how gamers and game developers must change their thinking about both women and games to produce better games, better audiences, and better industry practices. Ultimately, this book offers vital prescriptions for how one of our most powerful entertainment industries must evolve its ideas of women.

Zusammenfassung

Shira Chess is assistant professor of entertainment and media studies at the University of Georgia in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Contextualizing Player Two

1. Playing with Identity

2. Playing with Time

3. Playing with Emotions

4. Playing with Consumption

5. Playing with Bodies

Conclusion: The Playful Is Political

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Gameography

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781517900694
ISBN-10:	1517900697
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Chess, Shira
Hersteller:	University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Abbildungen:	27 black and white illustrations
Maße:	13 x 140 x 216 mm
Von/Mit:	Shira Chess
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.10.2017
Gewicht:	0,309 kg