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  • Data Fluencies

    by Philippa R. Adams, Roopa Vasudevan, Gillian Russell, Kishonna Gray, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Tara McPherson ...
    Series series In Search of Media
    Creating communities of care in the digital worldData Fluencies offers a model for enacting theories of data justice, methods of community engagement, and practical approaches to disrupting institutions and infrastructures that have diminished the capacities of everyday digital technology users. Combining humanities-based critical thinking, computational data analyses, arts-based research ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Intersectional Tech

    Black Users in Digital Gaming

    by Kishonna L. Gray ...
    In Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming, Kishonna L. Gray interrogates blackness in gaming at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Situating her argument within the context of the concurrent, seemingly unrelated events of Gamergate and the Black Lives Matter movement, Gray highlights the inescapable chains that bind marginalized populations to stereotypical ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live

    Theoretical Perspectives from the Virtual Margins—10th Anniversary Edition

    by Kishonna L. Gray ...
    By focusing on the experiences of users, gamers, and audiences inside one of the world’s largest gaming communities (Xbox Live), this book provides an overview of the landscape, architecture, and socio-technical structure of console gaming. Building on previous research regarding race, gender, and technology, it provides a much-needed intersectional approach to virtual gaming communities. It draws ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Woke Gaming

    Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice

    Edited by Kishonna L. Gray, David J. Leonard ...
    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 ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Feminism in Play

    Edited by Kishonna L. Gray, Gerald Voorhees, Emma Vossen ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Feminism in Play focuses on women as they are depicted in video games, as participants in games culture, and as contributors to the games industry. This volume showcases women’s resistance to the norms of games culture, as well as women’s play and creative practices both in and around the games industry. Contributors analyze the interconnections between games and the broader societal and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Culture, Community, and Educational Success

    Reimagining the Invisible Knapsack

    by Crystal Polite Glover, Toby S. Jenkins, Stephanie Troutman, Jemilia S. Davis, Myron C. Duff, Crystal Endsley, Paula Faulkner, Tieka Harris, Janet Haynes, Rhonda B. Jeffries, Anita Rao Mysore, Spencer Platt, Tenisha Powell, Tiera Tanksley, Alicia Nicki Washington, Toni Williams, Arlecia Simmons, Nathaniel Bryan, Nathaniel Frederick II, Adolphus Belk, Kishonna Gray ...
    Series series Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century
    Many Black, Latinx, multiracial and ethnically diverse, first-generation college students turned PhDs—tie their academic success, achievements, and ability to navigate the difficult terrain of higher education back to the critical experiences and lessons learned in their home lives and through their cultural backgrounds. For them, culture matters. This book offers an opportunity for an anti ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Media Life

    by Mark Deuze ...
    Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media.Media Life is a primer on how we may think of our lives as lived in rather than with media. The book uses the way media function today as a ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Coming of Age in Second Life

    An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

    by Tom Boellstorff, Tom Boellstorff ...
    Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat: Intersectional Perspectives and Inclusive Designs In Gaming

    by Yasmin B. Kafai, Gabriela T. Richard, Brendesha M. Tynes ...
    In Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat, the third edited volume in the series that includes From Barbie to Mortal Kombat and Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat, we expand the discussions on gender, race, and sexuality in gaming. We include intersectional perspectives on the experiences of diverse players, non-players and designers and promote inclusive designs for broadening access and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Communities of Play

    Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds

    by Celia Pearce ...
    The odyssey of a group of “refugees” from a closed-down online game and an exploration of emergent fan cultures in virtual worlds.Play communities existed long before massively multiplayer online games; they have ranged from bridge clubs to sports leagues, from tabletop role-playing games to Civil War reenactments. With the emergence of digital networks, however, new varieties of adult play ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Cool Anthropology

    How to Engage the Public with Academic Research

    Edited by Kristina Baines, Victoria Costa ...
    Through a series of case studies by leading anthropologists, Cool Anthropology highlights the many different approaches that scholars have used to engage the public with their research. Editors Kristina Baines and Victoria Costa showcase efforts to make meaningful connections with communities outside the walls of academia, moving anthropological thinking beyond the discipline. Through their focus ... Read more

    $25.69 USD