Video gaming is a popular youth pastime that has prompted scholarship into its relationship
with psychological well-being. However, sexual and gender diverse youth (SGDY) who play …

Virtual worlds can provide a safe place for social movements of marginal and oppressed
groups such as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT). When the virtual safe places …

Social media has become a part of everyday life, including the faith lives of many. It is a
space that assumes an observing gaze. Engaging with Foucauldian notions of surveillance …

The pervasiveness of surveillance, punishment, and control within and outside of spaces
such as jails, prisons, and detention centres suggests that the carceral is becoming an …

Surveillance is ubiquitous. It is well known that the presence of other people (in-person or
remote, actual or perceived) increases performance on simple tasks and decreases …

The chapter aims to deepen the theme of the participation of gender and sexual minorities in
social research, with a specific focus on the new possibilities offered by the digital society …

This paper aims to highlight structural issues concerning the conduct of esports media
professionals and their work as social media influencers. The data selected for this study …

Previous critical work on language ideologies surrounding English in postcolonial spaces
has shown how perduring colonial logics are repurposed into contemporary discourses of …

This chapter describes multiplayer online role-playing games (MORPGs) in which players
participate through networked connections to collectively build a narrative or experience …

World of Warcraft, the world's most popular massively multiplayer online roleplaying game
(MMORPG), is a virtual world set in a fantasy-style environment where millions of players …