scholarly journals Becoming a Gamer: Performative Construction of Gendered Gamer Identities

2021 ◽  
pp. 155541202110422
Author(s):  
Marke Kivijärvi ◽  
Saija Katila
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Gaming Industry ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Occupy Central ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article examines how women construct their gameplay identities in relation to the hegemonic “gamer” discourse. The article is based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with women who occupy central roles in the Finnish gaming industry. We deploy Judith Butler’s theorization of performative identity construction to examine how the women negotiate their identity in relation to the hegemonic gamer discourse, focusing on how they both embrace and resist the hegemonic, masculine constructions of gameplay. The study shows the dynamics surrounding the gamer identity. While women submit to the hegemonic gamer discourse, reproducing the masculine gamer notions to gain recognition as a viable member of the gameplay community, the study also identifies how subversive opportunities arise as the women deploy new, alternative versions of gamer identity. The hegemonic discourse is subverted through the identity position of tech-savvy, which departs from the masculine connotations.

Imagined Idylls and Nostalgic Idealization: Gastronomic Tourism in Rural Hungary

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-28
Author(s):  
Bernadett Csurgó ◽  
Clare Hindley ◽  
Melanie Kay Smith
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
Tourism Demand ◽  
Slow Food ◽  
Rural Living ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Depth Interviews

As a counterbalance to the speed of movement that dominates the modern era, rural living can offer a less frenetic experience, including slow food, and an imagined (if romanticized) rural "idyll." Urban cosmopolitans and tourists partake of both leisure and tourism activities in the countryside, and in some cases even settle there permanently. The authors explore the impacts of such developments on local culinary "habitus" and the impacts of tourism demand on local gastronomic traditions and identity using a series of in-depth interviews undertaken in several regions of rural Hungary. These interviews reflect the perspectives of local communities, urban migrants, and other stakeholders who have contributed to the diversification and hybridization of the rural environment and its gastronomic traditions. The authors conclude that traditional food production and gastronomy play a central role in the imagined construction of a rural idyll, community identity construction, and the nostalgic idealization of rural living in Hungary.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Study on Identity Construction among Teachers Working with Students with Disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-106
Author(s):  
Farzad Rostami ◽  
Mohammad Hosein Yousefi ◽  
Davoud Amini
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Purposeful Sampling ◽  
Depth Interviews

The purpose of this study was to explore multiple facets of the professional identities of Iranian in-service teachers in exceptional schools. The study adopted a qualitative design. The data were collected through in-depth interviews with 14 in-service teachers. The participants were selected through purposeful sampling. Each interview lasted up to 40 minutes. The whole procedure of the data collection was audio-recorded, and verbatim transcriptions were made. Thematic analysis was utilized to analyze the qualitative data. Three themes emerged: relationships, lower identity, and professional identity. The study has some implications for policymakers, curriculum designers, educational psychology, and teacher educators.

scholarly journals Identity Issues and Challenges Faced by Russian Immigrants in New Zealand

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Maydell ◽  
Marc Stewart Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Russian Immigrants ◽  
Culture Of Origin ◽  
Geographical Space ◽  
Depth Interviews

Among the processes cosmopolitan societies undergo at the present moment, is the unprecedented increase in mass migration across cultures. What challenges are faced by both immigrants, who have to settle in novel socio-cultural environments, and by the host populations accepting them? The current qualitative study investigates the nature of identity construction among Russian-speaking immigrants in New Zealand, applying thematic analysis for the interpretation of the data collected via 23 in-depth interviews. Among the most common themes articulated by the participants was the feeling of identity loss. A taken-for-granted sense of identity, brought by the participants from their culture of origin, was not validated by their new society of residence, mostly due to the lack of appropriate cultural resources. The participants were faced with a challenge of re-constructing their old identity, or constructing a new one, utilising the available resources in the community around them. At the same time, there was a sub-group for whom this challenge brought the realisation that the nature of their identity is cosmopolitan, rather than located within any particular culture or geographical space.

Ethos Construction, Identification, and Authenticity in the Discourses of AWSA

2020 ◽  
pp. 1629-1655
Author(s):  
Samaa Gamie
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Activist Group ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Critical Investigation

The chapter explores the complex emergent feminist ethos in two virtual spaces created by the San Francisco chapter of AWSA—the Arab Women's Solidarity Association International, an Arab women's activist group. First, the chapter discusses ethos and identity construction in cyberspace. Second, the chapter analyzes AWSA's cyber discourses to uncover the characteristics of its feminist ethos and the opportunities allowed or lost for authenticity and the role of anonymity in constructing its feminist ethos. Third, the chapter questions whether anonymity allows for the critical examination of the discourses and ideologies of the powerful in addition to the creation of a sustainable counter-hegemonic discourse or whether it heightens the threat of homogeneity and streamlining in cyberspace. The chapter, in its conclusion, calls for a critical investigation of the potential of the digital domain to challenge the concentration of power in virtual spaces and uncover frameworks through which revolutionary discourses can be sustained and disseminated.

scholarly journals TATTO0 MEANING RECONSTRUCTION IN TATTOO COMMUNITY MEMBERS

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-69
Author(s):  
Amir Dedoe
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Scientific Explanation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Body Art ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Social Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study aims to examine the meaning of the reality of individual social interest in body art tattooing or tattooing as an identity so that they bind themselves into a social community. Tattoos in Indonesia with the inherent negative stigmatization, have the complexity of debate in the dynamics of their presence in the public sphere. This paper presents one perspective, especially from the point of view of tattoo owners regarding their perceptions of the motives for tattooing that they do. By conducting observations and in-depth interviews in an effort to make a qualitative scientific explanation of the ownership motives of tattoos by community members. By triangulation techniques, the author builds a constructivist framework of the perception of tattoos in the community. This study found that a person's main motivation for having a tattoo is preceded by a desire to express artistic or artistic desires. When this accumulation of shared desires takes place, business motives and identity construction become a trigger for the formation of the tattoo community

scholarly journals “I’M NOT AFRAID OF BEING CALLED A LOSER”: THE ISSUE OF AGENCY IN FINN’S IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN THE TELEVISION SERIES GLEE

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Social Location ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Identity And Agency ◽  
Double Movement ◽  
Do So ◽  
Glee Club

This article analyzes the television series Glee and discusses the ways in which Finn’s identity construction — and his irresolution — can be read counter-hegemonically as fostering political agency. In order to do so, I discuss the concepts of identity and agency and notions such as social location and identification while conducting a textual analysis of specific scenes that pertain to the first season of the series. The analysis highlights that the character’s experience with the Glee club seems to be important for the constant re-construction of his identity. Such reconstruction is always part of a double movement: Finn, as a postmodern subject, is overtly contradictory. While his identity construction can be considered transgressive, at times his actions are in fact very conservative. Finn’s identity construction seems to demonstrate the ways in which Glee can be considered an example of postmodern contingency while being inserted simultaneously within restraining hegemonic discourse.

Ethos Construction, Identification, and Authenticity in the Discourses of AWSA

2017 ◽  
pp. 163-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samaa Gamie
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Activist Group ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Critical Investigation

The chapter explores the complex emergent feminist ethos in two virtual spaces created by the San Francisco chapter of AWSA—the Arab Women's Solidarity Association International, an Arab women's activist group. First, the chapter discusses ethos and identity construction in cyberspace. Second, the chapter analyzes AWSA's cyber discourses to uncover the characteristics of its feminist ethos and the opportunities allowed or lost for authenticity and the role of anonymity in constructing its feminist ethos. Third, the chapter questions whether anonymity allows for the critical examination of the discourses and ideologies of the powerful in addition to the creation of a sustainable counter-hegemonic discourse or whether it heightens the threat of homogeneity and streamlining in cyberspace. The chapter, in its conclusion, calls for a critical investigation of the potential of the digital domain to challenge the concentration of power in virtual spaces and uncover frameworks through which revolutionary discourses can be sustained and disseminated.

“Cool” English: Stylized Native-Speaker English in Japanese Television Shows

Multilingua ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Furukawa
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Native Speaker ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Japanese Speakers ◽  
Japanese Television

AbstractThis article analyzes stylized pronunciations of English by Japanese speakers on televised variety shows in Japan. Research on style and mocking has done much to reveal how linguistic forms are utilized in interaction as resources of identity construction that can oftentimes subvert hegemonic discourse (

scholarly journals Working for a Sustainable Surfing Community: Becoming a Local Surfer at a New Home Destination

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 6865
Author(s):  
Hanbeom Kim ◽  
Sun-Yong Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Past ◽  
Emotional Bonds ◽  
Regional Community ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Unique Context

South Korea used to be a non-surfing region until it experienced a remarkable realization of the surfing phenomenon, the so-called “surfing boom”, during the past couple of decades. The nonexistence of surfing communities or cultures offers a unique context that surfers have to deal with to become local surfers. The migration status of surfers further complicates the process of local surfer identity construction. This particular context provided migrant surfers with unique socio-spatial challenges and tasks that led them to a certain desire for sustainable surfing milieu. This paper aims to explore the experiences of early migrant surfers when constructing their local surfer identity. Data were collected through fieldwork, in-depth interviews, and document analysis. The early migrant surfers perceived becoming local surfers to be a process of making a new life while they were settling on their new “home”. Thus, they desired a sustainable surfing environment not only with the surf breaks but also with the whole regional community they live in. Hence, becoming a local surfer was becoming a local villager at the same time. They put forth multilateral community endeavors to construct and maintain social and emotional bonds with local authorities, local native residents, and the community environment. Through their interactions with the wider rural community, it was hoped that they would also actually contribute to the formation and maintenance of that rural community for sustainable surfing.

scholarly journals An Exploration of Consumer Complaint Behavior towards the Hotel Industry: Case Study in Macao

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Grace Suk Ha Chan ◽  
Irini Lai Fun Tang ◽  
Aiko Hoi Kei Sou
Keyword(s):  
Service Failure ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Gaming Industry ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
Complaint Behavior ◽  
Consumer Complaint Behavior ◽  
Improve Service Quality ◽  
Depth Interviews

Macao has experienced positively exponential growth with the liberalization of the gaming industry in 2002. This profit-generating territory has attracted many international chain companies, such as Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Wynn Resorts Limited, MGM Resorts International, and Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, LLC, to establish their businesses in Macao. However, Macao is currently experiencing its worst downturn since 2002. Hotel operators should strive to continuously improving the services that they offer to survive the keen competitive environment. These operators should acquire feedback by encouraging and facilitating the complaint process to improve service quality and meet customer expectations. When customers encounter service failure, they engage in different coping strategies such as inertia, negative word-of-mouth, third party complaint, and voice (Kim, 2010). This study aims to explore the complaint behavior of customers toward the hotel industry in Macao. A qualitative approach is adopted with a sample of 30 respondents who have stayed in Macao hotels. Semi-structured questions are asked through in-depth interviews. The reasons for the complaints and complaint behavior of the customers have been identified, and recommendations are given based on the results of the analysis to provide insights for industry practitioners.

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