Essays about: "GamerGate"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word GamerGate.

1. 1. "No Left, No Right - Only the Game" : A Netnographic Study of the Online Community r/KotakuInAction

   University essay from

   Author : Oskar Larsson; [2021]
   Keywords : Gamergate; Reddit; Alt-Right; Online Othering; Collective Identity; Discourse; SJW; political correctness;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how 'othering' discourse can be used to construct and negotiate boundaries and shape collective identities within online spaces. Through a mixed-method approach of thematic analysis and a netnographic study, and by drawing on theoretical concepts of online othering and identity formation, this thesis explores how the Gamergate community r/KotakuInAction can be understood in relation to Gamergate, the Alt-Right and society at large. READ MORE

3. 2. Gender & race in digital game cultures: A critical discourse analytical approach to Metacritic game reviews

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Oskar Bork; [2020]
   Keywords : Feminist CDA; Gender; Digital methods; Game studies; Alt-Right; Feministisk CDA; Genus; Digitala metoder; Spelstudier; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines user reviews of the video game Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (Machine games 2017). From a total of 560 reviews, 176 reviews engaging with social and political issues in the game was selected for a critical discourse analysis. READ MORE

4. 3. Appropriating Gaming - A Quantitative Content Analysis and Issue Mapping of the Online Campaign #NotMyBattlefield

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Oskar Larsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Gamergate; Alt-Right; SJW; Twitter; Hashtag; Online Campaign; Issue Mapping;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to examine how online engagement in the #NotMyBattlefield campaign can be understood as an online harassment campaign and a continuation of the Gamergate controversy. Research has shown that Gamergate was appropriated by external political groups, such as the Alt-Right. READ MORE

5. 4. VIDEO GAME CREATION : Inhibitors and Enablers in Female Inclusion

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för informatik

   Author : Nadia V. Ruiz B.; [2019]
   Keywords : Video game industry; video game creation; female inclusion; feminist technoscience; toxic masculinity; game engines; inhibitors; enablers;

   Abstract : In 2012 and 2014, two hashtags, #1ReasonWhy and #GamerGate, exposed a highly sexist video game industry that was not welcoming female participation. This was affecting women working or wanting to work in it. READ MORE

6. 5. "They're coming for our games" : A study of far-right social mobilization in the gaming community

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Erik Lindvall; [2018]
   Keywords : Social movement; mobilization; radicalization; political activation; internet; online; gamers; gamergate; video games; anti-feminism; wolfenstein;

   Abstract : The aim of this is thesis is to study and understand the development within the gaming community in the latter half of 2014, where a harassment campaign against the female developer Zoe Quinn led to an industry-spanning controversy that divided large sections of the gaming community, and how this fed into a far-right radicalization of certain groups of young male gamers. This thesis focuses on the idea that the controversy in question helped mobilize these games into an online social movement that aimed to “take back our games” from the perceived outside threats of feminism and political correctness, and how they through that process became an easy target for assimilation within large far-right and white supremacist movements. READ MORE