标题：‘When I click “ok” I become Sassy – I become a girl’. Young people and gender identity: subverting the ‘body’ in massively multi-player online role-playing games
期刊名称：International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
印刷版ISSN：0267-3843
电子版ISSN：2164-4527
出版年度：2014
卷号：19
期号：2
页码：217-231
DOI：10.1080/02673843.2012.736868
出版社：Taylor and Francis Ltd
摘要：This article explores young people's practices in the virtual spaces of online gaming communities. Based on a five-year ethnographic study of virtual worlds, it considers how young people construct and maintain identities within virtual social systems. In particular, the article discusses digital gender practices and considers the potential that these games offer for their young users to engage in alternate gender identities. We argue that these digital spaces offer spaces for the imagination and can enhance agency and, potentially, resistance. However, digital identity is simultaneously no ‘liberated space’ and it incorporates norms and practices that often mirror those of the material world. We argue that this ‘porosity’ is an important tool through which young people come to understand gender identity.
关键词：identity ; gender ; massively multi-player online role-playing games ; digital ; play
