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http://hdl.handle.net/1893/25171| Appears in Collections: | Literature and Languages Journal Articles |
| Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
| Title: | Society Must Be Defended: Online Quality of Life, a Foucauldian Case Study of Gamergate |
| Author(s): | Lindsay, Stuart |
| Contact Email: | s.l.lindsay@stir.ac.uk |
| Keywords: | online quality of life videogaming videogaming culture online culture gamergate feminism |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| Date Deposited: | 14-Mar-2017 |
| Citation: | Lindsay S (2017) Society Must Be Defended: Online Quality of Life, a Foucauldian Case Study of Gamergate. Spark: Stirling International Journal of Postgraduate Research, (3), pp. 42-53. http://spark.wordpress.stir.ac.uk/files/2017/01/Spark-03-Online-Society-Must-be-Defended.pdf |
| Abstract: | The activity of real-life trolls and the psychological impact on their victims has been the subject matter of recent television drama, such as Channel 4’s Cyberbully (2015), and horror films with a supernatural twist, such as Unfriended (2015). However, this article explores a key transition in the construction of online social power, from its direct, brutal enforcement by the figure of the troll, to a particular example of the online, biopolitical regulation of quality of life using the device of Vivian James: the fictional character, mascot, and figurehead of the Gamergate protest movement. |
| URL: | http://spark.wordpress.stir.ac.uk/files/2017/01/Spark-03-Online-Society-Must-be-Defended.pdf |
| Rights: | The publisher has granted permission for use of this work in this Repository. Published in Spark by University of Stirling: http://spark.wordpress.stir.ac.uk/files/2017/02/Spark-2017-Quality-of-Life.pdf |
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