{"id":15165,"date":"2012-12-01T13:50:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T21:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=15165"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:49:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:49:14","slug":"athletes-geeks-and-gamers-exploring-gender-and-professional-e-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/athletes-geeks-and-gamers-exploring-gender-and-professional-e-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAthletes, Geeks, and Gamers:\u00a0Exploring Gender and Professional E-sports\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"0213-Taylor-flyer\"<\/a>Browsing Room
\nKnight Library
\n1501 Kincaid St.<\/p>\n

T.L. Taylor is an associate professor of\u00a0 Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-author of Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method<\/em> (with T. Boellstorff, B. Nardi, and C. Pearce; Princeton University Press, 2012), and the author of\u00a0 Raising the Stakes: E-sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming<\/em> (The MIT Press, 2012) and Play Between Worlds: Exploring Online Game Culture<\/em> (The MIT Press, 2006).<\/p>\n

“Athletes, Geeks, and Gamers : Exploring Gender and Professional E-sports”<\/h5>\n

While we have a growing, and important, body of literature looking\u00a0at women and girls in relation to gender and gaming, very little has been\u00a0written that seeks to\u00a0understand how boys and men are traversing the terrain.\u00a0Though we should be cautious about easy category conflation, more attention is needed in unpacking various forms of masculinities, some even\u00a0under contest, within game culture. E-sports, a form of\u00a0 organized competitive computer gaming, proves to be a\u00a0particularly\u00a0useful site to explore this domain given it intersects\u00a0conversations about both athleticism and geekiness, classic and potent\u00a0way-points for the construction of\u00a0femininity and masculinity.\u00a0Drawing on\u00a0my work in professional gaming, I will explore several major forms of\u00a0masculinity produced in the professional e-sports\u00a0scene; one centered around\u00a0ratifying a notion of athletic masculinity and one entangled with constructions\u00a0of \u201cgeekyness\u201d that, at times, has an uneasy relationship to\u00a0hegemonic\u00a0masculinity. Though professional e-sports remains a\u00a0niche slice of game culture, this talk will argue that it presents a strong\u00a0case study for our\u00a0continued interrogation of gender, play, and sports.<\/p>\n

This lecture is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society, Robert D. Clark Honors College, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Comparative Literature, and the School of Journalism and Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. T.L. Taylor is an associate professor of\u00a0 Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the co-author of Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method (with T. Boellstorff, B.…<\/p>\n

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