forestdaa.blogg.se - Queer Game Studies by Bonnie Ruberg

While popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Bonnie Ruberg pushes the concept of queerness in games beyond a matter of representation, exploring how video games can be played, interpreted, and designed queerly, whether or not they include overtly LGBTQ content. 13.Argues for the queer potential of video games “Where Is the Queerness in Games?: Types of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Content in Digital Games.” International Journal of Communication, vol. “Circles, Charmed and Magic: Queering Game Studies.” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, vol. “Permalife: Video Games and the Queerness of Living.” Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, vol. Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games. “Queer Gaming: Gaming, Hacking, and Going Turbo.” Queer Game Studies, edited by Adrienne Shaw and Bonnie Ruberg, University of Minnesota Press, 2017, pp. “Perverting Play: Theorizing a Queer Game Mechanic.” Television & New Media, vol. “No Homosexuals in Star Wars? BioWare, ‘gamer’ Identity, and the Politics of Privilege in a Convergence Culture.” Convergence, vol. “Love Is in the Air: Queer (Im)Possibility and Straightwashing in FrontierVille and World of Warcraft.” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking, vol.

Queer Game Studies is a growing field with a lot to say about queerness in games! The readings listed below are only a handful of the amazing scholarly texts available, not to mention the many popular pieces of games journalism and commentary! For a more thorough reading (and playing!) list, see Bonnie Ruberg’s Queer Game Studies 101.Ĭhang, Edmond Y. Queer Identities in Video Games: Data Visualization for a Quantitative Analysis of Representation.

“Analyzing trends in LGBTQ digital game representation”, by Adrienne Shaw, Evan W.

Two other publications have produced different visualizations of the LGBTQ Video Game Archive, with notably different lenses that complement the visualizations here: Please also feel free to e-mail me with any questions or concerns! My e-mail is Visualizations The data that these visualizations pull from is publicly available in this spreadsheet, which I’ll continue to update as the LGBTQ Video Game Archive expands or I add new visualizations: Shaw if you’re interested in contributing! More games are constantly being added, and there’s no shortage of work to be done on the archive, so please reach out to Dr. These visualizations draw all of their data from the LGBTQ Video Game Archive, founded by Adrienne Shaw at Temple University.