| Start Date: | 11/11/2014 | Start Time: | 6:30 PM |
| End Date: | 11/11/2014 | End Time: | 7:30 PM |
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Event Description
Adrienne Shaw's book Gaming at the Edge represents an intersection of three major fields in media studies: the politics of representation of marginalized groups; ethnographic and qualitative media audience research; and cultural studies approaches to video games. It provides an in-depth look at not just how groups are represented in games, as some previous authors have done, but how audiences interact with these representations in ways that are unique to this particular medium.
Although other authors have addressed similar issues in relation to online gaming, T.L. Taylor’s "Play Between Worlds" being the seminal example, this book looks at people who play games (alone or with others) rather than people who play a
particular game or on a particular platform. It addresses digital games as part of broader media consumption practices and identity work, looking at the ways games and concerns about representation in them are embedded within the everyday lives of players.
Adrienne Shaw is an assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University and a Media and Communications PhD program faculty member. Her primary areas of interest are video games, gaming culture, the politics of representation, and qualitative audience research. Her forthcoming book is titled "Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer
Culture" (University of Minnesota Press, 2015). |
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Location:
Papadakis Integrated Sciences Building, Room 109, 3245 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
Audience:
AlumniInternational StudentsLGBTQACurrent StudentsFacultyProspective StudentsPublicStaffGraduate StudentsSenior ClassParents & Families |
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