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The relationship between women and video games has received extensive academic and media attention. Since the 1990s, [1] female gamers have commonly been regarded as a minority. However, industry surveys have shown that over time, the gender ratio has become closer to equal. Beginning mainly in the 2010s, women have been found to make up around ...
Mabel Addis - Wrote the mainframe game The Sumerian Game (1964), becoming the first female video game designer.; Tina Amini - IGN editor-in-chief.; Anna Anthropy - American video game designer who has worked on multiple indie games such as Mighty Jill Off and is the game designer in residence at the DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media.
Running time. 76 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. GTFO (also known as GTFO: Get the F&#% Out) is a 2015 American documentary film, [1] directed by Shannon Sun-Higginson, about sexism and women in the world of video games. [2] [3] It premiered at South by Southwest on March 14, 2015.
The portrayal of gender in video games, as in other media, is a subject of research in gender studies and is discussed in the context of sexism in video gaming. Although women make up about half of video game players, they are significantly underrepresented as characters in mainstream games, despite the prominence of iconic heroines such as ...
April 27, 2017. ( 2017-04-27) Tropes vs. Women in Video Games is a YouTube video series created by Anita Sarkeesian examining gender representation in video games. The series was financed via crowdfunding, and came to widespread attention when its Kickstarter campaign triggered a wave of online harassment against Sarkeesian, [2] causing her to ...
Gamergate or GamerGate ( GG) [ 1] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [ 2][ 3][ 4] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015. [ 1][ 5][ 6][ 7] Gamergate targeted women in the video game ...
Media critic Anita Sarkeesian drew attention to sexism in video gaming with her video series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. Sexism in video gaming is prejudiced behavior or discrimination based on sex or gender as experienced by people who play and create video games, primarily women. This may manifest as sexual harassment or in the way ...
Anita Sarkeesian ( / sɑːrˈkiːziən / sar-KEE-zee-ən; born 1983) is a Canadian-American feminist media critic. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency, a website that hosts videos and commentary analyzing portrayals of women in popular culture. Her video series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, examines tropes in the depiction of female ...