Performing self, performing character: Exploring gender performativity in online role-playing games

Online narrative (fiction-based) role-playing games and massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) provide a ludic structure in which role players enact the gender and sexuality of their avatars. To investigate how role players perceive and perform their avatars' gender and sexua...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heather Osborne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Organization for Transformative Works 2012-09-01
Series:Transformative Works and Cultures
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2012.0411