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Identity and Advocacy in Gaming: How Video Games Reflect and Reinforce Gender Inequality

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28/04/2025

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TiffanyBaring

Abstract This paper explores video games as important platforms to explore and advocate identity through reflections of social systems which control women’s bodies and autonomy. It also examines gaming space gender dynamics through research on female gaming experiences in sexism and harassment while showing how computer game networks simultaneously advance gender equal rights and support…
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Identity and Online Advocacy

Advocacy, Communities, feminism, gaming, Identity, LGBTS+, Tomb Raider, Twitch, Video games
The objectification of women on Twitch: How streaming culture can reinforce gender stereotypes towards women

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27/04/2025

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Mayrion Ngu

Abstract Streaming culture is cultivated by numerous members of various online communities formed by similar interests, most common being gaming as gaming and streaming are closely connected. Streamers are able to create a personal space to connect with those who share common interests online. Twitch, a popular online streaming platform which is focused on the…
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Communities and Social Media

community, discrimination, feminism, gaming, gender, Social Media, Twitch, Women
Leading the Feminist Argentinian Community on Instagram: Mujeres Que No Fueron Tapa (Women Who Were Not On a [Magazine] Cover)

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27/04/2025

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Milagros Wade

Abstract This paper explores how the Argentinian feminist community Mujeres Que No Fueron Tapa (Women Who Were Not On a [Magazine] Cover) effectively leverages Instagram to challenge gender norms, reshape public perceptions and promote feminist activism. Founded by Lala Pasquinelli, the movement uses platform-specific tools such as hashtags, stories and user-generated content to mobilise ‘networked’…
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Online Networks and Social Change

#activism, #femaleidentity, #metoo, #socialchange, Activism, Advocacy, feminism, feminist, Instagram, social change
Instagram can be used to reinforce opinions on feminism

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24/04/2025

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Nur Ayshah Hasri

Abstract: This essay will be researching how Instagram can be used to reinforce society’s beliefs on feminism, which can support feminists by encouraging social changes to occur. The history of feminism has evolved through ‘waves’ over the past decades and the recent ‘fourth wave of feminism’ relies on social media and online activism. However, this…
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Online Networks and Social Change

#metoo, #niunamenos, #timesup, feminism, feminist movement, Instagram, online networks, social and political cause, social change, Social Media, social movement, waves of feminism

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Identity and Advocacy in Gaming: How Video Games Reflect and Reinforce Gender Inequality

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