Gamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our popular
understanding of “gamer” shifts beyond its historical construction as a white, straight …

Finalist, 2021 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies Association Seeking
ways to understand video games beyond their imperial logics, Patterson turns to erotics to re …

A provocative study that reconsiders our notion of play—and how its deceptively wholesome
image has harmed and erased people of color. Contemporary theorists present play as …

The past five years have seen the development of what Mukherjee, S.(2018. Playing
subaltern: Video games and postcolonialism. Games and Culture, 13 (5), 504–520) and …

INTRODUCTION 1. I occasionally experienced this night-sky view using the original Oculus Rift
(2016). The phenomenon appears to Page 1 INTRODUCTION 1. I occasionally experienced …

This article analyzes the relationship between student productive labor, or the creation of
media content like podcasts or graphic designs, and the institutionalization of collegiate …

Collegiate esports programs are rapidly expanding across the United States, offering a
meaningful location in which to study diversity, equity, and inclusion. Because educational …

Background This chapter explores player interactions and engagement in tabletop role-
playing game settings. Objective Particularly focusing on the intersection of gaming systems …

Videogames are political spaces. For more than twenty years, videogames have been
coopted by activists globally to organise protests in amorphous, organic, and rhizomatic …

Gaming and esports communities possess cultural barriers that exclude potential
participants, limiting their access to social, cultural, and economic opportunities. In the …