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Games and Masculinity: Learning How to be a Man Through Video Games
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
This session will present data and explore how community college men construct their masculinity through playing video games.
Target Audience
Educators, administrators, higher education professionals; social justice educators; men; anyone interested in video games, social media, and popular cutlure.
Learning Outcomes
Learners, as a result of this session, will understand the discourse of popular culture, and they will understand how video games are a critical component of that discourse. Further, they will also be able to define and articulate the challenges and opportunities facing community college men. Lastly, learners will be able to appreciate and analyze the nuances of masculinity and its (social) construction. Most importantly, learners will comprehend how video games are a crucial learning space for this demographic.
Session Description
Popular culture is a critical area for adult learning, and video games are (largely) an un-analyzed section of this culture. Work by adult educators primarily focuses on TV and Film, while overlooking video gaming as a social learning space. My contention is that just as the current research on popular culture shows hegemony as work; so, too, are there hegemonic effects within video games. To promote social justice and social equality, we must understand the hegemony, how it is perceived by participants within this community, and how video games can be used to promote emancipatory learning.
This session will present the data and tentative analysis of interviews conducted with male community college students. This analysis shall examine how masculinity is constructed using video games, how it can be deconstructed, and what potential hegemony occurs within the learning space.
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