The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and
TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …

Scholars have extensively studied video game labor practices (eg, Bulut, E.(2015). Glamor
above, precarity below: Immaterial labor in the video game industry. Critical Studies in …

Despite a lack of consumer interest as recently as 2012, virtual reality (VR) technologies
entered the mainstream in 2014 backed by multinational corporations, including Facebook …

History has recorded the aggressive fandom campaigns of the 2010s, which drove
vulnerable minority actors from their careers and homes.# GamerGate was the most iconic of …

This article argues that GamerGate, a critical hashtag event in the history of digital
harassment, is key to understanding contemporary identity verification systems and digital …

What have relatively recently become known as 'toxic'online practices–especially in the
wake of 2014 press coverage of Gamergate (Nieborg and Foxman 2018; Consalvo 2012; …

Research on online harassment has become increasingly important as more aspects of
daily life rely on the internet. Currently, large gaps in knowledge of how online harassment …

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 …

Creating successful newsgames requires effective boundary work between journalists and
game developers. Both groups come to the job with different professional vocabularies …

In debates concerning videogames and the freedom of expression, two lines of
argumentation have traditionally been put forward: That games express ideas and for this …