Christine Ofner wrote this summary:
Gender in Play: Mapping a Girls' Gaming Club
Target group: pupils of a primary school in Toronto.
research question: It is to be shown how computer games are still seen as a male domain.
Methodology: Multimodal Application Program (MAP) - the behavior of participants will be visually recorded and then analyzed. The program plays a selected audio sequence across multiple channels. Each channel refers to its own mode of communication (hand gestures, laughter, etc.). The result is a character scale ("semiotic score) that records for the researchers significant interactions. In addition, the students fill out questionnaires.
Participants will be divided during the first phase in single sex play groups, playing on different days, while a female researcher and then coordinated a male researcher and be received. There are three Groups of girls that play over a period of 12 weeks during the lunch breaks and after school. These units are recorded, divided into encoded audio clip (30 seconds to 2 minutes). Various forms of physical and verbal interactions are recorded during the game. In the second phase of the project, a mixed-sex group is set up, in turn, records a research-based person.
Results: The text is explained in more detail a record - five girls are disturbed by two boys in the computer game. After the boys have asked why the girl does not have the game "Underground 2" play happened a non-verbal invitation by a girl on the boys. These go out to the console to put them on again - until she asks another girl to go. Here is quite clear is how much the "expert role" of the boys also internalized in the girls. Computer games are still dominated by men, although this is often represented differently.
Source:
Taylor, Nicholas; Jenson, Jennifer; de Castell, Suzanne (2007).
Mapping a Girl's Gaming Club. In: Proceedings of DIGRA 2007 Conference,
Tokyo, Japan. In: http://www.digra.org/dl/db/07312.27373.pdf [24/09/2010]
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