亦有性别/种族标签的网游世界（科罗拉多大学社会学博士论文）

本文为博士学位论文系列第7篇。其它各篇见页底。

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网游世界就是公平的吗？就是没有性别歧视的吗？就是没有族群标签的吗？

“问题少女博士”Zek Cypress Valkyrie，2011年毕业于科罗拉多大学博尔德分校 (CU-Boulder) 的社会学博士生，在博士论文里这样讲述自己的网瘾经历！！

（图片来源：https://www.uccs.edu/soc/zek_valkyrie.html）

If I control for sleep, I have spent almost half of my conscious life during my dissertation research inside virtual worlds. Half.[这是什么游戏？半条命？] 

A decade ago, I would have had a problem, most likely a disease or disorder that would require I smash my computer into tiny bits, break all the game software I own, and join some form of addiction program (they still exist). However, this stretches beyond more than some micro pathology tweak and even psychologists will find it difficult to keep this with an epidemic framework. It is cataclysmic

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但是，他还是在自己的博士论文致谢里，感谢了自己的网游战友。

I extend my greatest appreciation to the gamers who participated and inhabited the many virtual worlds I spent five years studying. Their insight and passion continued to embolden me throughout the difficulties of this dissertation. I thank them for the healing, the damage mitigation, the adventures, the triumphs, and the heartbreaks. I thank them for their willingness to participate, their reflective responses, and their excitement and interest in this work. May their journeys never end.

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她的博士论文究竟研究什么呢？

标题 ：Fantastic realities: Solid and virtual resonance in MMORPGs

摘要：

[游戏世界就是平等的吗...腾讯不服~]This dissertation is a qualitative study that examines how game worlds and positive game experiences are neither equally accessible nor equally enjoyable to many who wish to participate in them. 

Newer research on games argues that those who master them are fulfilled socially, are highly productive, are motivated, and are invigorated by participation in grand narratives. 

[方法说明]

Using a mixed methods approach, I drew on seventy in-depth interviews with gamers coupled with observational data from my membership role in several virtual worlds. 

[虚拟世界也被现实的门槛挪用和占领：性别、种族、性态]

Through these data I examined the social barriers deployed to fracture game world communities and arguably disperse the positive benefits of play. Specifically, my participants and my observational data indicate that rigid social categories of gender, sexuality, and race, as well as the assumptions bound to their maintenance and reinforcement, disrupted the possibility for a more inclusive collective identity. 

[互动理论框架：虚拟会话关系——社会范畴——认同政治]

I use an interactionist theoretical framework to understand how the rigidity of social categories and identity politics are recreated and enforced through virtual conversation and relationships. 

This dissertation explains how the labeling and exclusion of various "others" in game worlds, including women, gender-bending men, non-hardcore geeks, fluid sexuality players, and cyberworkers, entrenches the stereotypes of who gamers are and who they can be. The consequences of these practices erode the possibilities for how the solid world and reality itself might benefit from becoming similar to a game.

作者的网站：https://www.uccs.edu/soc/zek_valkyrie.html

现留校任Senior Instructor, Department of Sociology

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本文为博士学位论文系列第7篇

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