[Air-L] Gender swapping in SL

[Joshua Raclaw]

Are you familiar with these two articles?  The Hussain and Griffiths article is probably most relevant to what you're interested in, though the Sundén may also be worth looking at.


Hussain, Z. and M. Griffiths.  (2008).  "Gender Swapping and Socializing in Cyberspace: An Exploratory Study."  Cyberpsychology and Behavior 11(1).  http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cpb.2007.0020?cookieSet=1

Sundén, J.  (2002).   “I’m still not sure she’s a she”: Textual talk and typed bodies in online interaction.  In P. McIlvenny (Ed.).  Talking gender and sexuality (pp. 289-312).  Amsterdam: John Benjamins.


Joshua


Joshua Raclaw - PhD student
Department of Linguistics
Culture, Language & Social Practice
Women and Gender Studies
University of Colorado at Boulder
http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~raclaw/


---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:09:58 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Adam Davis <adavis45 at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: [Air-L] Gender swapping in SL  
>To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
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>Apologies for cross-posting...
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>I'm looking for a few studies on gender-swapping in MMORPGs or virtual environments, and particularly SL.  My focus is on identity in online environments, and I haven't quite been able to find what I'm looking for in database searches.
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>Many thanks,
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>Adam Davis
>PhD Student
>Mass Communication and Media Arts
>Southern Illinois University
>SL: Forthwith Sideways
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