ABSTRACT

Situating gaming as a cultural practice aimed at constructing issues of power through cultural discussions necessitates a framework of discourse of gaming to explain how meanings around gaming practice develop. Built on the premise that gaming offers multimodal opportunities for interaction, we introduce the discourse of gaming framework to connect processes of boundary work, definition making, and legitimization to the activities of gaming, the gamer’s identity, and the consequences of gaming. Through a survey of Reddit gaming fan communities, discourse of gaming here reflects the power perceived outsiders (e.g., journalists, academics, and politicians) have on shaping the discourse.

摘要

将游戏定位为一种旨在通过文化讨论构建权力问题的文化实践，需要一个游戏话语框架来解释围绕游戏实践的意义如何发展。在游戏提供多模式交互机会的前提下，我们引入了游戏框架的论述，将边界工作、定义制定和合法化过程与游戏活动、游戏玩家的身份和游戏的后果联系起来。通过对 Reddit 游戏粉丝社区的调查，这里的游戏话语反映了外界（例如，记者、学者和政治家）在塑造话语方面的权力。