How do teens define what it means to be a gamer? Mapping teens’ video game practices and cultural imaginaries from a gender and sociocultural perspective

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• dc.contributor.author Vilasís-Pamos, Júlia
• dc.contributor.author Pires de Sá, Fernanda
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-06-09T06:05:40Z
• dc.date.issued 2021
• dc.description Data de publicació electrònica: 21 de febrer de 2021
• dc.description.abstract This study analyses how gender and socioeconomic characteristics permeate teens’ discourses when they define what it means to be a gamer. Video games have become a reference framework for teenagers, in which gaming practices may be important parts of their identity and social context. In addition, many teens see gaming as a professional possibility. This study provides five new gamer categories based on data from four focus groups carried out in Spain with teens from 12 to 16 years old. The ‘escapist-gamer’ and the ‘ashamed-gamer’ categories are based on teens’ gaming practices, and the ‘celebrity-platform-gamer’, the ‘professional-gamer’ and the ‘poser-gamer’ are based on the adolescents’ cultural imaginaries and aspirations. These categories demonstrate that certain male game practices are explicit, while female game practices are silenced. Moreover, sociodemographic characteristics complexify inequalities further, resulting in a struggle against normative models of femininity and masculinity, and determining teens’ aspirations and conceptions of the video game world. Thus, the gamer categories exemplify how video games are currently playing a pivotal role in forging unequal gender and social identities. And, at the same time, these categories show how teens struggle against heteronormative values associated with the game industry.
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• dc.identifier.citation Vilasís-Pamos J, Pires F. How do teens define what it means to be a gamer? Mapping teens’ video game practices and cultural imaginaries from a gender and sociocultural perspective. Inf Commun Soc. 2021. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2021.1883705
• dc.identifier.doi http://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1883705
• dc.identifier.issn 1369-118X
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53423
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
• dc.relation.ispartof Information, Communication & Society. 2021.
• dc.rights © This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Information, Communication & Society on 21 febraury 2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1883705
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.subject.keyword Gamer
• dc.subject.keyword gender
• dc.subject.keyword gaming culture
• dc.subject.keyword teens
• dc.subject.keyword video game practices
• dc.title How do teens define what it means to be a gamer? Mapping teens’ video game practices and cultural imaginaries from a gender and sociocultural perspective
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion