Gender, Masculinity and Video Gaming: Analysing Reddit's r/gaming Community

?This book examines gender attitudes in Reddit's popular video gaming communitysubreddit, r/gaming. Video gaming has long been understood as a masculinised socialspace and, while increasing numbers of girls and women now engage in the pastime, boys and men remain the predominant social actors. Furthermore, the gamingcommunity has been widely identified as a prime case study in broader concernsaround 'toxic' masculinity and gendered online harassment. However, there is alsounderexamined evidence of a growing movement in the community coming forwardto voice its collective opposition. Utilising an innovative combination of computationaland qualitative methods, the research undertaken here exposes this fuller picture, revealing significant contestation and a spectrum of attitudes that mark out thispopular gaming community as a battleground for gender (in)equality. Students andscholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, media studies, culturalstudies, sociology, games studies and computer sciences, will find this book of interest.