Dressing Commander Shepard in pink: Queer playing in a heteronormative game culture

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F15%3A10321275" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/15:10321275 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CP2015-3-3" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CP2015-3-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/CP2015-3-3" target="_blank" >10.5817/CP2015-3-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Dressing Commander Shepard in pink: Queer playing in a heteronormative game culture

Original language description

This article explores the strategies of queer playing of video games and their relationship to the heteronormative game culture. Its premise is that most video games are, either implicitly or explicitly, heteronormative and the inscribed player of such games is in the majority of cases a heterosexual male. In order to achieve the same level of identification with an avatar and to enjoy a similar gameplay experience as the heterosexual player, the LGBT player may have to deploy various strategies to challenge the game and work around it, or to find the LGBT content which some more progressive games offer. The study is based on in-depth qualitative interviews with six players (5 males and 1 female) who identified themselves both as homosexual and as players of the Mass Effect or Dragon Age series, games that include several opportunities to initiate same-sex romance. We have identified three different queer playing strategies: imaginative play (queer reading of unspecified or heterosexua

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Cyberpsychology

ISSN

1802-7962

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

34

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84945132945