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Citation
Lindsay S (2017) Society Must Be Defended: Online Quality of Life, a Foucauldian Case Study of Gamergate. Spark: Stirling International Journal of Postgraduate Research, (3), pp. 42-53. http://spark.wordpress.stir.ac.uk/files/2017/01/Spark-03-Online-Society-Must-be-Defended.pdf
Abstract
The activity of real-life trolls and the psychological impact on their victims has been the subject matter of recent television drama, such as Channel 4’s Cyberbully (2015), and horror films with a supernatural twist, such as Unfriended (2015). However, this article explores a key transition in the construction of online social power, from its direct, brutal enforcement by the figure of the troll, to a particular example of the online, biopolitical regulation of quality of life using the device of Vivian James: the fictional character, mascot, and figurehead of the Gamergate protest movement.
Keywords
online quality of life; videogaming; videogaming culture; online culture; gamergate; feminism
Journal
Spark: Stirling International Journal of Postgraduate Research, Issue 3
| Status | Published |
|---|---|
| Publication date | 31/12/2017 |
| Date accepted by journal | 12/01/2017 |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25171 |
| Publisher | University of Stirling |
| Publisher URL | http://spark.wordpress.stir.ac.uk/…-be-Defended.pdf |
| ISSN | 2399-6366 |