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 …

Portal (2007) presents an unusually complex example for the study of video game paratexts.
This article uses the case of the game's promotional website ApertureScience. com to …

This chapter considers the possibilities of utilizing multiple approaches to discourse analysis
to produce innovative work on gamer identities that borrows from the theoretical frameworks …

This article interrogates Portal's monstrous antagonist GLaDOS through a psychoanalytical
lens, granting specific attention to her maternal coding. The process of presenting maternal …

This volume examines fifty of the most important video games that have contributed
significantly to the history, development, or culture of the medium, providing an overview of …

Though evidence of a desire for thinking machines extends back at least as far as Plato, it
was only with relatively recent increases in computational processing power available user …

Due to the increasing popularity of video games in mass media culture, I will be investigating
one particular video game series, Portal: Still Alive and Portal 2, and the manner by which …

This chapter argues that cooking and baking in fandom is closely connected to the source-
text, and that platforms like recipe sites and fan cooking shows are important everyday sites …

Title: Eating fandom: intersections between fans and food cultures/edited by CarrieLynn D.
Reinhard, Julia E. Largent, and Bertha Chin. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY …