Ethnographies of the Videogame

Ethnographies of the Videogame uses the medium of the videogame to explore wider significant sociological issues around new media interaction identity performance memory and mediation. The book is particularly concerned with issues of agency and power identifying strong correlations between perceptions of gaming and actual gaming practices as well as the reinforcement through gaming of established power relationships within households. Thornham provides pertinent and reflexive commentary highlighting the relationships of gender and power in gaming practice.