{"id":3795,"date":"2024-04-22T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/?p=3795"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:26:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T06:26:27","slug":"redefining-representation-women-and-the-lgbtqia-community-in-gaming-and-esports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/onsc\/3795\/redefining-representation-women-and-the-lgbtqia-community-in-gaming-and-esports\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining Representation: Women and the LGBTQIA community in Gaming and Esports."},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nINTRODUCTION\r\nMany of us have been forced by COVID-19 to reflect on the value of communities, which is why there are now a plethora of online communities that aren't only for gamers! Going back to the word's origin, one of the fundamental ideas of sociology and the human sciences is \"community.\" It is also a contentious subject that will inevitably bring the researchers into political arguments around what defines a \"good life,\" what makes an \"ideal society,\" or what is wrong with the way ...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INTRODUCTION Many of us have been forced by COVID-19 to reflect on the value of communities, which is why there are now a plethora of online communities that aren’t only for gamers! Going back to the word’s origin, one of the fundamental ideas of sociology and the human sciences is “community.” It is also a contentious subject that will inevitably bring the researchers into political arguments around what defines a “good life,” what makes an “ideal society,” or what is wrong with the way …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":3800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[570,518,676,481,472,886,885,483,567,529,693,736],"class_list":["post-3795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-onsc","tag-smcn2024-onlinenetworksandsocialchange-onlineconference","tag-advocacy","tag-mentalhealth","tag-onlinecommunity","tag-socialchange","tag-esports","tag-gaming","tag-generation-z","tag-lgbtqia","tag-twitch","tag-women","tag-young-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3795"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4700,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3795\/revisions\/4700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}