Essays about: "Women in games"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 39 essays containing the words Women in games.

1. 26. In Search of a Room of Their Own

   University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

   Author : Elsa Jannborg; [2015]
   Keywords : Fittja; Youth Centre; Girls Night; participant observation; fiction; Virginia Woolf; Marcel Proust; Girls; Women;

   Abstract : 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

3. 27. An Inquisitive Gaze: Exploring the Male Gaze and the Portrayal of Gender in Dragon Age: Inquisition

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Jenny Lööf; [2015]
   Keywords : video games; gender; the male gaze; Laura Mulvey; objectification; pleasure;

   Abstract : 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

4. 28. Masculinity and Objectification : a narrative study on the representation of masculine identity in video games

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

   Author : Ranchor Sandberg; [2015]
   Keywords : Masculinity; Objectification; Feminist narratology; Video game; Priming; Gender role; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : Previous studies on the representation of gender roles video games, and how they are able to affect the consumers' understanding of their own gender identity, often focus on the portrayal of female characters and their effect on male and female consumers. This present study deviates from this common trend and chooses to investigate how expressions of masculine identity are designed towards the objectification of women, to gain an understanding of how this sort of narrative may affect male players to adopt a similar attitude. READ MORE

5. 29. ”Winning isn’t everything.” A Mixed-method study of a Swedish female handball team throughout a competitive season

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS)

   Author : Jasper Vallmark Jansson; [2014]
   Keywords : concentration; emotion; handball; leadership style; performance; emotioner; handboll; koncentration; ledarskap; prestation;

   Abstract : The purpose of the present study was to (1) examine throughout the season dynamics of the handball team's performance and related factors (i.e. emphasizing leadership, emotions and concentration) as perceived by the coach and the captain. READ MORE

6. 30. Emotion, concentration and performance in a Swedish female handball team : Development and implementation of the team specific instrument

   University essay from Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS)

   Author : David Olausson; Jasper Vallmark Jansson; [2014]
   Keywords : Concentration; emotion; handball; performance; sport;

   Abstract : The present study is a mixed method longitudinal design, containing three objectives. Object one was to develop a team-specific survey instrumentin order to measure emotion, concentration and performance during a game. Object two was to examine the dynamics of emotion, concentration and performance in successful and less successful games. READ MORE