Vol. 15 No. 1 (2024)

First page of the table of contents for the issue.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7557/23.151

Published: 2025-01-03

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Introduction

Editorial Critical

Holger Pötzsch, Kristine Jørgensen

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Articles

Distinguishing the players of the digital field A multiple correspondence analysis of the socialization practice among Swedish gamers

Tim Bergström

7-48
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(Re)producing orientalism Industry logic of Chinese mobile game re-skins in the global app empire

Yizhou Xu

49-73
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Parties as playful experiences Why game studies should study partying

Leland Masek, Jaakko Stenros

75-96
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Playing rogues Picaresque experiences in videogames

David Matencio

97-124
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Queer gender identities and videogames A literature review

Mark Maletska

125-150
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Spec Section Introduction

Who cares about esports? Introduction to the special section on Sustaining Equitable Competitive Gaming

Nicholas T. Taylor

151-161
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Special Section

Deconstructing esports Why we need to acknowledge bodies in a move toward more equitable esports practices

Tom Legierse, Maria Ruotsalainen

163-181
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"I want to play a normal game. I don't need all this." Exploring equity and diversity in Portuguese esports

Carina de Assunção, Michael Scott, Rory Summerley

183-207
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Changing the game but keeping to the rules Ambivalences between social activism and content creation in the Brazilian sports scene

Beatriz Blanco

209-223
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Equitable forms of participation on a gaming-adjacent platform The platformization of a youth center

Fredrik Rusk, Matilda Ståhl, Isac Nyman

225-241
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Reviews

Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis, edited by Laura op de Beke, Joost Raessens, Stefan Werning and Gerald Farca (Amsterdam University Press, 2024) Book review

Lykke Guanio-Uluru

243-253
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Everything to Play For: How Videogames are Changing the World by Marijam Did (Verso, 2024) Book review

Emil L. Hammar

255-259
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Videogame Formalism: On Form, Aesthetic Experience and Methodology by Alex Mitchell and Jasper van Vught (Amsterdam University Press, 2023) Book review

Hans-Joachim Backe

261-265
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World War Two Simulated: Digital Games and Reconfigurations of the Past by Curtis D. Carbonell (University of Exeter Press, 2023) Book review

Phil Hammond

267-272
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Commentaries

Transgender emergence in video games Intersections, discourses, directions

Robin Longobardi Zingarelli

273-283
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