TY - JOUR
T1 - Discourse of Gaming: A Conceptual Framework of Gaming as an Interpretive Community
AU - Perreault, Gregory P.
AU - Lynch, Teresa
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal Of Broadcasting & Electronic Media on 1 Jul 2022, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/08838151.2022.2093355.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Situating gaming as a cultural practice aimed at con-structing issues of power through cultural discussions necessitates a framework of discourse of gaming to explain how meanings around gaming practice develop. Built on the premise that gaming offers mul-timodal opportunities for interaction, we introduce the discourse of gaming framework to connect pro-cesses of boundary work, definition making, and legit-imization to the activities of gaming, the gamer’s identity, and the consequences of gaming. Through a survey of Reddit gaming fan communities, discourse of gaming here reflects the power perceived outsiders (e.g., journalists, academics, and politicians) have on shaping the discourse.
AB - Situating gaming as a cultural practice aimed at con-structing issues of power through cultural discussions necessitates a framework of discourse of gaming to explain how meanings around gaming practice develop. Built on the premise that gaming offers mul-timodal opportunities for interaction, we introduce the discourse of gaming framework to connect pro-cesses of boundary work, definition making, and legit-imization to the activities of gaming, the gamer’s identity, and the consequences of gaming. Through a survey of Reddit gaming fan communities, discourse of gaming here reflects the power perceived outsiders (e.g., journalists, academics, and politicians) have on shaping the discourse.
UR - https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/com_facpub/56
U2 - 10.1080/08838151.2022.2093355
DO - 10.1080/08838151.2022.2093355
M3 - Article
VL - 66
JO - Journal Of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
JF - Journal Of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
ER -