Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live - Theoretical Perspectives from the Virtual Margins¿10th Anniversary Edition

By focusing on the experiences of users, gamers, and audiences inside one of the world-s largest gaming communities (Xbox Live), this book provides an overview of the landscape, architecture, and socio-technical structure of console gaming. Building on previous research regarding race, gender, and technology, it provides a much-needed intersectional approach to virtual gaming communities. It draws from a wide breadth of disciplines and interviews with minoritized and marginalized users to offer an overview of the virtual oppressions these individuals navigate and resist.

In this 10th Anniversary Edition, author Kishonna L. Gray introduces the audience to a perspective on console gaming environments called -Multi-mediated Interactive Console Environments.- This new chapter provides a necessary understanding of these dynamic digital communities, adding console games, which have been heretofore left out of conversations on gaming, to platform studies, and addressing troubling exa