"War never changes.": Gender Roles and the Transformative Potential for Role Reversal in Roleplay Games with Post-Apocalyptic Settings
This article tackles the question in which ways the apocalypse has a transformative potential for rethinking gender roles and breaking up with stereotypes in post-apocalyptic Open World Roleplay Games (RPGs). It inquires if and in what way a change in hegemonic structures can be observed on the leve...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Gamevironments
Year: 2022, Volume: 16, Pages: 33-67 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Fallout 4
/ Horizon Zero Dawn
/ Role-play
/ Gender-specific role
/ Postapokalypse (Motif)
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| RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology NBQ Eschatology ZB Sociology ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Fallout 4
B gamevironments B post-apocalyptic B Role reversal B Apocalypse B Game Studies B Gender Roles B Horizon: Zero Dawn |
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