How Video Game Journalists Cover Sexual Misconduct in the Industry
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.26503/dl.v2025i3.2559Keywords:
video game journalism, game industry, sexual misconduct crisis, ideology of anxiety, game journalism, rhetoricAbstract
This extended abstract details the research plan for part of the author's dissertation seeking to understand how video game journalism impacted the sexual misconduct crisis. Specifically, it will examine how game journalists covered the 2021 California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) lawsuit against Activision Blizzard for having a work culture centered around gender and race discrimination and sexual harassment. The author's dissertation will involve a thematic content analysis of 100 news articles from both mainstream news outlets and enthusiast press.
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2025-06-16
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@Conference{digra2559, title ="How Video Game Journalists Cover Sexual Misconduct in the
Industry", year = "2025", author = "Fennimore, John", publisher = "DiGRA", address = "Tampere", howpublished = "\url{https://dl.digra.org/index.php/dl/article/view/2559}", booktitle = "Abstract Proceedings of DiGRA 2025: Games at the Crossroads"}
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