investiGaming - Research Findings on Gender and Games
  • All Entries
  • Search
  • Browse Tag Cloud
  • About this Gateway
  • Submit Research
  • Contributing Editors
  • Related Links
  • RSS
  • Contact Us
NSF logo

investiGaming is a publication of the Serious Game Design group in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University, 2007-2009

This gateway is partially supported by grant 0631771 from the National Science Foundation.

The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent Michigan State University or the National Science Foundation.

Investigaming tag: Harassment

investiGaming ›  Tags ›  Harassment

Cassell, Justine & Cramer, Meg ((in press))


to appear in Digital Youth, Innovation, and the Unexpected: The MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Synopsis:

Examines the telegraph, telephone, Internet, and social networking sites in order to demonstrate that the current panic over girls’ vulnerability online is not new.

Keywords:

book, internet use, harassment, gender stereotypes, MMO

Full Text: Yes | Abstract: Yes


De Angeli, A. and Brahnam, S. (2006)


In Proc. of Gender and Interaction, Real and Virtual Women in a Male World Workshop (http://www.informatics.manchester.ac.uk/~antonella/gender/papers.htm) Discussion of conversational agents in computer environments and the way people interact with them.

Keywords:

conference, experiment, avatars, harassment, aggression, gender stereotypes

Full Text: Yes | Abstract: Yes | Highlights: Yes


Sevo, Ruta and Daryl Chubin (2008)


http://momox.org/biasliteracy.html

Synopsis:

A digest of basics regarding discrimination, with an emphasis on women in science and engineering:  laws, terminology, concepts in research, intervention programs, organizations, and metrics.

Keywords:

literature review, academia, workforce, IT careers, working conditions, gender equity, harassment, gender stereotypes

Full Text: Yes | Abstract: Yes | Highlights: Yes


Yao, Mike, Mahood, Chad, and Linz, Daniel (2006)


International Communication Association Conference, Germany

Synopsis:

A study of whether playing sexually explicit video games prime men to think about sex and view women as sex objects.

Keywords:

conference, experiment, harassment, gender stereotype, sexuality, psychology

Full Text: Yes | Abstract: Yes | Highlights: Yes