ENG 225 Rhetoric and Gaming

Gray, K. L. (2011). Deviant bodies, stigmatized identities, and racist acts: examining the experiences of African-American gamers in Xbox Live This article claims that minority gamers, mainly male African-American, are labeled deviant within the gaming community of Xbox Live arguing the stigma of blackness through profiling and identifying the process that leads to racisms. The author examined the process that leads to African-American gamers as being labeled deviant within Xbox Live. The researcher found it useful to the experiment to interact as an observer and participant in the community which allowed for “open-ended format of interviewing where the participants could tell their stories as well as provide direct evidence when the labeling, stigma, and deviance process”, to occur. Interviews with a semi-structured schedule allowing for conversational dialogue and observations took place over a period of 8 months. The participants were selected through snowball sampling, due to Xbox ...

Gray, K. L. (2011). Deviant bodies, stigmatized identities, and racist acts: examining the experiences of African-American gamers in Xbox Live This article claims that minority gamers, mainly male African-American, are labeled deviant within the gaming community of Xbox Live arguing the stigma of blackness through profiling and identifying the process that leads to racism. The author examined the process that leads to African-American gamers as being labeled deviant within Xbox Live. The researcher found it useful to the experiment to interact as an observer and participant in the community which allowed for “open-ended format of interviewing where the participants could tell their stories as well as provide direct evidence when the labeling, stigma, and deviance process”, to occur. Interviews with a semi-structured schedule allowing for conversational dialogue and observations took place over a period of 8 months. The participants were selected through snowball sampling, due to Xbox...