[Commlist] New book: Gamer Trouble

We would like to announce a new publication from New York University 
Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*Gamer Trouble***

Feminist Confrontations in Digital Culture

*Amanda Phillips***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781479834921/gamer-trouble/_*

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*CSLS2020*

“Absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in video games or 
game studies. Inspired by queer (and) women of color feminism, this 
much-needed, timely, and insightful book troubles the figure of the 
gamer and boldly shifts how we understand video games and their place in 
society.”*—Bonnie Ruberg, author of **/Video Games Have Always Been Queer/*

Complicating perspectives on diversity in video games.

Gamers have been troublemakers as long as games have existed. As our 
popular understanding of “gamer” shifts beyond its historical 
construction as a white, straight, adolescent, cisgender male, the 
troubles that emerge both confirm and challenge our understanding of 
identity politics. In /Gamer Trouble/, Amanda Phillips excavates the 
turbulent relationships between surface and depth in contemporary gaming 
culture, taking readers under the hood of the mechanisms of video games 
in order to understand the ways that difference gets baked into its 
technological, ludic, ideological, and social systems.

By centering the insights of queer and women of color feminisms in 
readings of online harassment campaigns, industry animation practices, 
and popular video games like /Portal/ and /Mass Effect/, Phillips adds 
essential analytical tools to our conversations about video games. She 
embraces the trouble that attends disciplinary crossroads, linking the 
violent hate speech of trolls and the representational practices 
marginalizing people of color, women, and queers in entertainment media 
to the dehumanizing logic undergirding computation and the optimization 
strategies of gameplay. From the microcosmic level of electricity and 
flicks of a thumb to the grand stages of identity politics and global 
capitalism, wherever gamers find themselves, gamer trouble follows. As 
reinvigorated forms of racism, sexism, and homophobia thrive in games 
and gaming communities, Phillips follows the lead of those who have been 
making good trouble all along, agitating for a better world.

*Amanda Phillips*is Assistant Professor of English and Film and Media 
Studies at Georgetown University.


*New York University Press**| April 2020 | 256pp | 9781479834921 | PB | 
£22.99**

*Price subject to change.

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