The dust has yet to settle around the debates over what the digital humanities is or is not.
Boundaries and demarcations continue to shift within a complex and ongoing conversation …

In this article, I examine how race impacts online interactions on one of the most popular
online gay personal websites in the United States. Based on 15 in-depth interviews and an …

This paper provides a critical analysis of virtual environments made in recent leisure and
cultural studies discussions, which claim virtual reality to be the technotopia of post-modern …

This paper analyzes discourses of everyday racism and colorblind racism on an internet
forum. While skin color is invisible online, identities as black, white and shades in between …

In this chapter, we examine extreme and more mainstream forms of racism in video gaming.
We first take up relatively unsophisticated video games, such as Border Patrol, created by …

Using Chicago as our case, this article puts forth a notion of black placemaking that
privileges the creative, celebratory, playful, pleasurable, and poetic experiences of being …

This article presents a theoretical framework for making sense of gaming, ethnicity and race
through the conceptual lens of critical approaches to the body, representation and the …

As someone who teaches at the intersection of digital media studies and race/whiteness
studies, I often feel as if I'm trying to fit a round peg in a square hole, or perhaps I should say …

M arginalized gamers are often simultaneously active participants within gaming as well as
savage critics of the hegemonic cultures in which they exist, resisting many oppressive and …