This chapter focuses on discourses surrounding tools to combat trolling and harassment on
Twitter, drawing on and extending previous work on discursive tactics against harassment in …

Gaming journalism, which finds its origins in public relations-oriented gaming magazines,
discursively attached itself to traditional journalism in the wake of the 2014 GamerGate …

GamerGate is a viral campaign that became an occasion, particularly from August 2014 to
January 2015, to both question journalistic ethics and badger women involved in game …

Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a
player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new …

Some months after the photo became famous, the moment that it depicts was co-opted by
Pepsi for a risible commercial featuring reality TV star Kendall Jenner handing a soft drink to …

Digital Journalism and the Facilitation of Hate explores the process by which digital
journalists manage the coverage of hate speech and" hate groups," and considers how …

On August 6, 2015, Time Magazine's cover heralded the coming of a new age: Virtual
Reality (VR) would" change the world" and" revolutionize the way we live, play and …

In this article, we examine the position of women in Czech video game journalism and the
strategies they use to cope with sexism. To this end, we conducted eight in-depth interviews …

This article examines contemporary practices of 'idling'(playing 'idle games') and 'let's
playing'(watching 'Let's Play'[LP] videos of performed gameplay) as forms of power and …

Situating gaming as a cultural practice aimed at constructing issues of power through
cultural discussions necessitates a framework of discourse of gaming to explain how …