Readings

Winner, Langdon. "Do Artifacts have Politics?" In The Social Shaping of Technology. McGraw Hill Education / Open University, 1999. ISBN: 9780335199136.

Malaby, Thomas M. "Beyond Play: A New Approach to Games." Games and Culture 2, no. 2 (2007): 95–113. (Sage Publications)

Hughes, Linda. "Beyond the Rules of the Game: Why Are Rooie Rules Nice?" In The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology. MIT Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780262195362.

Taylor, T. L. "The Assemblage of Play." Games and Culture 4, no. 4 (2009): 331–9. (Sage Publications)

West, Candace, and Don H. Zimmerman. "Doing Gender." In The Social Construction of Gender. Sage Publications, 1990. ISBN: 9780803939578.

Jordan–Zachery, Julia S. "Am I a Black Woman or a Woman Who Is Black? A Few Thoughts on the Meaning of Intersectionality." Politics & Gender 3, no. 2 (2007): 254–63.

Pascoe, C. J. "Making Masculinity: Adolescence, Identity, and High School." In Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520252301. [Preview with Google Books]

Connell, R. W., and James W. Messerschmidt. "Hegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking the Concept." Gender & Society 19, no. 6 (2005): 829–59. (Sage Publications)

Optional

McIntosh, Peggy. "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack." (PDF) 1998.

Hall, Stuart. "The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media." In Gender, Race and Class in Media — A Text Reader. Sage Publications, 1995.

Leonard, David. "Virtual Gangstas, Coming to a Surburban House Near You: Demonization, Commodification, and Policing Blackness." In The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto: Critical Essay. McFarland and Company, 2006. ISBN: 9780786428229. [Preview with Google Books]

Shaw, Adrienne. "Putting the Gay in Games: Cultural Production and GLBT Content in Video Games." Games and Culture 4, no. 3 (2009): 228–53. (Sage Publications)

Harvey, Alison. "Twine's Revolution: Democratization, Depoliticization, and the Queering of Game Design." Game: The Italian Journal Of Game Studies, no. 3 (2004).

Pascoe, C. J. "Adolescent Male Homophobia." In Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. University of California Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780520252301. [Preview with Google Books]

Banks, John, and Sal Humphreys. "The Labour of User Co-creators: Emergent Social Network Markets?" Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 14, no. 4 (2008): 401–18. (Sage Publications)

Dovey, Jon, and Helen W. Kennedy. "Interventions and Recuperations?" In Game Cultures: Computer Games as New Media (Issues in Culture and Media Studies). Open University Press, 2006. ISBN: 9780335213573. [Preview with Google Books]

Dyer–Witherford, Nick, and Greig de Peuter. "Immaterial Labor: A Workers' History of Videogaming." In Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games. University of Minnesota Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780816666119. [Preview with Google Books]

McCrea, Christian. "Watching StarCraft, Strategy and South Korea." In Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia–pacific. Routledge, 2009. ISBN: 9780415996273. [Preview with Google Books]

Lin, Holin, and Chuen–Tsai Sun. "The Role of Onlookers in Arcade Gaming: Frame Analysis of Public Behaviours." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 17, no. 2 (2011): 125–37. (Sage Publications)

Lowood, Henry. "'It's Not Easy being Green': Real–time Game Performance in Warcraft." In Videogame, Player, Text. Manchester University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780719074011.

Walker, Austin. "Watching Us Play: Postures and Platforms of Live Streaming." Surveillance & Society 12, no. 3 (2014): 437–42.