Cosplayers: Gender and Identity is an examination of identity practices in cosplay, as
expressed by cosplayers themselves. It challenges the assumed correlation between …

World of Warcraft, the world's most popular massively multiplayer online roleplaying game
(MMORPG), is a virtual world set in a fantasy-style environment where millions of players …

Online socialisation is ubiquitous in daily life. This socialisation has the potential to
reproduce or challenge offline inequalities. Gender inequality is one facet of offline …

A cultura geek é um termo que se refere a um grupo de pessoas apaixonadas por temas
relacionados à tecnologia, ficção científica, fantasia, jogos de vídeo game, quadrinhos …

This chapter presents an exploratory study of English linguistic variation in CMC, examining
a group of speakers whose social identities offline exhibit salient dimensions of both …

The internet contains an ever-expanding space where people interact, forming groups and
developing customs which, to an outside observer, may seem strange. This project focuses …

Two weeks ago, I published a piece on modern monsters and their meanings within
contemporary pop culture. Though I dug through the remains of zombies, vampires and …