Helen Thornham

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted nearly four years ethnographic research, during which they interviewed and recorded gamers and gameplay and found that predications to play, perceptions about, and actual play are highly gendered in ways that reveal gaming as a normalised and normalising technology.

TL;DR: The authors argue that contemporary understandings of selfies either in relation to a "documenting of the self" or as a neoliberal (narcissistic) identity affirmation are inherently problematic and instead, they argue that selfies should be understood as a wider social, cultural, and media phenomenon that understand the selfie as far more than a representational image.

TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of domestic videogames is proposed towards a theory towards a domestic videogaming Appendices Bibliography Index. Contents: Introductions: videogames, gender, ethnography Constructing a gendered gaming identity Articulating pleasure: gender, technology and power The practices of gameplay Bodies and action Pleasure and the imagined gamer

TL;DR: This article proposes ‘sexist assemblages’ as a way of understanding how the human and mechanical elements that make up social media content moderation assemble to perpetuate normative gender roles, particularly white femininities, and to police content related to women and their bodies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that social media and smartphone technologies within the military offer a unique environment in which to investigate the ways individuals position themselves within certain axes of institutional and cultural identities.