[Commlist] Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice

new book

*Woke Gaming***

  Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice

*Edited By Kishonna L. Gray and David J. Leonard***

*_http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/woke-gaming_*

 From #Gamergate to the 2016 election, to the daily experiences of 
marginalized perspectives, gaming is entangled with mainstream cultures 
of systematic exploitation and oppression. Whether visible in the 
persistent color line that shapes the production, dissemination, and 
legitimization of dominant stereotypes within the industry itself, or in 
the dehumanizing representations often found within game spaces, many 
video games perpetuate injustice and mirror the inequities and violence 
that permeate society as a whole.

Drawing from groundbreaking research on counter and oppositional gaming 
and from popular games such as World of Warcraft and Tomb Raider, Woke 
Gaming examines resistance to problematic spaces of violence, 
discrimination, and microaggressions in gaming culture. The contributors 
of these essays seek to identify strategies to detox gaming culture and 
orient players and gamers toward progressive ends. From Anna Anthropy’s 
Keep Me Occupied to Momo Pixel’s Hair, Nah, video games can reveal the 
power and potential for marginalized communities to resist, and 
otherwise challenge dehumanizing representations inside and outside of 
game spaces.

In a moment of #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, and efforts to transform 
current political realities, /Woke Gaming/ illustrates the power and 
potential of video games to foster change and become a catalyst for 
social justice.

*Kishonna L. Gray*is assistant professor in the Department of Gender and 
Women's Studies and Communication at the University of Illinois–Chicago. 
She is the author of /Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live: 
Theoretical Perspectives from the Virtual Margins/ and a featured 
blogger and podcaster with /“Not Your Mama’s Gamer.”/

*David J. Leonard*is a professor at Washington State University. He is 
the author of several books, including /Playing While White: Privilege 
and Power on and off the Field/. Follow him on twitter @drdavidjleonard.

With all best wishes,

Combined Academic Publishers

*University of Washington Press**|  November 2018 | 320pp 
| 9780295744179 | PB | £22.99**


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