[Commlist] new book: Video Games and Gender Assemblages: Understanding #Gamergate and Beyond

new book: Video Games and Gender Assemblages: Understanding #Gamergate 
and Beyond

Sian Tomkinson is very excited to announce their first book has been 
released! "Video Games and Gender Assemblages: Understanding #Gamergate 
and Beyond":

In this book, Sian Tomkinson examines why, despite around half of gamers 
being female, highly-gendered stereotypical assumptions pervade the 
video game industry and communities of play, leading to toxic attitudes 
and events such as Gamergate and beyond. Tomkinson utilizes a 
Deleuzoguattarian lens through critique of categories to encourage a 
shift away from the binary oppositions that often lie at the root of 
this tension. Through the use of concepts including the assemblage, 
faciality, and the refrain, the book argues that the increased diversity 
of games, producers, and players have challenged traditional gamer 
identities. Gamers faced with this challenge, Tomkinson posits, can 
either embrace new experiences and affects – deterritorialising this 
identity – or become destructively reactionary by reterritorializing and 
refusing to meaningfully engage with difference. Ultimately, this book 
demonstrates how video game cultures and communities have a unique 
assemblage of influences while also functioning as a microcosm of 
broader social, cultural, and political tensions. Scholars of media 
studies, video game studies, women's and gender studies, philosophy, and 
sociology will find this book of particular interest.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Gendered Play
Chapter 2: The Industry and Gender
Chapter 3: The Witcher 3: A Game Assemblage
Chapter 4: Assemblages in Detail
Chapter 5: Player Norms and Categories
Chapter 6: What Do Games Do?
Chapter 7: Gamergate: Fear and Hate

https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/video-games-and-gender-assemblages-9781666945898/ 

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