The three texts selected “A Conspiracy of Fishes, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying About #GamerGate and Embrace Hegemonic Masculinity” by Shira Chess and Adrienne Shaw, “Hypermasculinity & Dickwolves: The Contentious Role of Women in the New Gaming Public” by Anastasia Salter and Bridget Blodgett, and “Exploring Gender, Feminism and Technology from a Communication Perspective: An Introduction and Commentary” by Michele H. Jackson. These texts range to a diverse range of ideals and women consuming media, specifically pertaining to video games.The following texts selected, expand current feminist issues concentrating on video games and the online-blogging, video gamer world. Most recently, women in affiliation to video gaming, are being attacked online with death and rape threats. Fortunately, no one has been harmed since these threats, but it is still a very serious and possible situation.
Video games have come a long way from their serious sexist concepts and the exploitation of women. Recently, in the video game community, women have been virtually attacked and have been rumored to gain positive reviews in a not so business-oriented way. To be specific, the article “A Conspiracy of Fishes, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying About #GamerGate and Embrace Hegemonic Masculinity” articulates the cause of Zoe Quinn, who was one of …show more content…
I also hope to find that the chance of more women will be entering the game designing realm, as well. I think that video games are important and the most obvious reason, an escape from reality. I am a video gamer myself and do not feel strongly against female portrayal during game-play, but it is definitely an interesting concept to research. Feminism is prevalent in today’s society and has been an emerging topic for decades, I find that it is important to have background knowledge of feminism to avoid
Video games have come a long way from their serious sexist concepts and the exploitation of women. Recently, in the video game community, women have been virtually attacked and have been rumored to gain positive reviews in a not so business-oriented way. To be specific, the article “A Conspiracy of Fishes, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying About #GamerGate and Embrace Hegemonic Masculinity” articulates the cause of Zoe Quinn, who was one of …show more content…
I also hope to find that the chance of more women will be entering the game designing realm, as well. I think that video games are important and the most obvious reason, an escape from reality. I am a video gamer myself and do not feel strongly against female portrayal during game-play, but it is definitely an interesting concept to research. Feminism is prevalent in today’s society and has been an emerging topic for decades, I find that it is important to have background knowledge of feminism to avoid