Do you identify as a gamer? Gender, race, sexuality, and gamer identity

By Adrienne Shaw. New Media & Society, 2012

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What is a True Gamer? The Male Gamer Stereotype and the Marginalization of Women in Video Game Culture (2017, background): “Indeed, Shaw (2012) (2013) and Grooten and Kowert (2015) argue that the term " gamer " refers to a social identity rather than merely describing the act of playing video games (Grooten & Kowert, 2015).”
Women’s experiences with general and sexual harassment in online video games: Rumination, organizational responsiveness, withdrawal, and coping strategies (2017, background): “…medium, video games have been perceived as a masculine space (Braithwaite, 2014; Consalvo, 2012; Jenson and De Castell, 2010; Kiesler et al., 1985; Salter and Blodgett, 2012), and the term “gamer” is often equated with “male” despite the diversity of video game players (Gray, 2012a; Shaw, 2012).”