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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Language: | English |
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Organization for Transformative Works
2012-09-01
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Series: | Transformative Works and Cultures |
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3983/twc.2012.0411 |