{"id":1872,"date":"2021-05-08T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T10:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2021-05-17T17:14:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:14:53","slug":"its-not-just-about-the-looks-sincerely-from-all-the-girls-in-the-gaming-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/2021\/05\/08\/its-not-just-about-the-looks-sincerely-from-all-the-girls-in-the-gaming-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not just about the &#8220;looks&#8221;. Sincerely, from all the girls in the gaming industry."},"content":{"rendered":"\nSexism faced by women is a significant social threat to the growth of the online gaming industry due to \u2018geek\/nerd masculinity\u2019 (Friman &amp; Ruotsalainen 2018): born from the systematic portrayal of women in the wider media.\n\n\n\nSociety is composed of individuals and these individuals have the agency to form and reform our identities based on aspirations and desires but limited by biology. Every individual is a unique fineprint that is by their environment, upbringing, culture beliefs and the <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/2021\/05\/08\/its-not-just-about-the-looks-sincerely-from-all-the-girls-in-the-gaming-industry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexism faced by women is a significant social threat to the growth of the online gaming industry due to \u2018geek\/nerd masculinity\u2019 (Friman &amp; Ruotsalainen 2018): born from the systematic portrayal of women in the wider media. Society is composed of individuals and these individuals have the agency to form and reform our identities based on aspirations and desires but limited by biology. Every individual is a unique fineprint that is by their environment, upbringing, culture beliefs and the Read more [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"It's not just about the \"looks\". Sincerely, from all the girls in the gaming industry. ","bgseo_description":"Sexism faced by women is a significant social threat to the growth of the online gaming industry due to \u2018geek\/nerd masculinity\u2019: born from the systematic portrayal of women in the wider media. With the current uprising trend of women in gaming and a subsequent rise in female streamers has disrupted a traditionally male-dominated industry, many of whom are now feeling that \u201ctheir personal space\u201d is being invaded. This is often coupled with the notion that women are more likely to have lucrative careers in the gaming industry because the age old adage of \u2018looks sell\u2019. This paper will explore the fact that in reality, studies and statistics have shown that the opposite is the case. \r\n","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[58,327,577,195],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm","tag-gaming","tag-gamingcommunity","tag-streamers","tag-twitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}