Essays about: "Women in games"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 37 essays containing the words Women in games.
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21. Body Remains a Difference : Representation of Gender in Four Newspapers' Reporting on the 2016 Olympic Games
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This thesis investigates how male and female athletes competing in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro were portrayed in two British and two American newspapers (The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post). It also examines how the total amount of coverage was distributed between athletes of each gender. READ MORE
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22. Fair Game : A critical examination of gender representation in League of Legends
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeAbstract : In the last decades, video games have become more visible in the media landscape. With the rise of e-sport, development of infrastructure and progress in technology, online games are becoming an important part of mainstream culture. READ MORE
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23. “Misogyny in the world of online gaming? ” A critical discourse analysis about how female gamers are portrayed in the Swedish Media
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikationAbstract : This paper’s purpose is to investigate the discourse in the Swedish media about sexism in the gaming world. A social issue that is highlighted is the constitution of gender in relation to online games. The goal is to gain knowledge about how women are represented in news articles. READ MORE
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24. In Search of a Room of Their Own
University essay from KTH/ArkitekturAbstract : This diploma thesis in architecture is a book composed of a combination of embedded anthropological documentation and creative fiction, written with help from Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. It is a story built up, fragment by fragment, that describesregular visits to the Girls Night events at a Youth Centre in Fittja, in Northern Botkyrka, south of Stockholm, where the author went to meet and spend time with a group of local girls on Thursday evenings in the Spring of 2015. READ MORE
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25. An Inquisitive Gaze: Exploring the Male Gaze and the Portrayal of Gender in Dragon Age: Inquisition
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : This paper provides an account of how a normative male gaze is produced and upheld even in a video game famed for its inclusive nature, Dragon Age: Inquisition. The analysis originates in content studies concerning the portrayal of gender in video games in relation to in-game physical gender portrayal. READ MORE