Open AccessBeyond Virtual Carnival and Masquerade
Author(s) -
Weihua Wu,
Steve Fore,
Xiying Wang,
Petula Sik Ying Ho
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
games and culture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.739
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1555-4139
pISSN - 1555-4120
DOI - 10.1177/1555412006296248
Subject(s) - game studies , china , performativity , sociology , subculture (biology) , the internet , gender studies , new media , digital media , media studies , aesthetics , political science , art , computer science , law , world wide web , botany , biology
This article documents the brief history of cyber marriage on the Chinese Internet and shows how in-game marriage, with its game codes and marriage regulations, turns out to be the most visualized, institutionalized, and heteronormative form of cyber marriage, by exploring the game players' gender performativity, especially the gender swapping of male gamers. This study sheds light on Chinese youth subculture under the influence of new media and the consumer digital network in postsocialist China. © 2007 Sage Publications.link_to_subscribed_fulltex
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