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