Exploring the Plurality of Black Women's Gameplay Experiences

Rankin, Yolanda A.; Han, Na-eun

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300369

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“…Though these previously mentioned studies demonstrate children's ability to function as designers of technology, none of these studies intentionally recruited or engaged Black children, a marginalized population, in the design of technology. As Black feminist technologists in HCI, we consider this to be more than just an oversight as too few research studies specifically examine Black students' motivations for utilizing or designing technology [59,60]. Instead, the accepted practice within the CSCW and HCI communities has been to ignore the issue of race [56,69], which results in the erasure and exclusion of racially defined groups (i.e., Black Americans).…”

Section: Designing Technology For Children With Childrenmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the surface, this may seem like a mere oversight. However, from the perspective of Black women scholars, the lack of research concerning Black people and their relationship with technology renders Black children, women and men as being invisible while reinforcing whiteness as the dominant culture in the fields of CSCW and HCI [59,62]. This represents just one example of how racism insidiously operates in CSCW and HCI [34].…”

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Resisting Racism in Tech Design

Rankin

Henderson

2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Speech-based interfaces that feature conversational agents have a diverse population of users, including children. While recent HCI research has investigated child-agent interactions in the context of speech-based interfaces with rare mention of sample populations' racial makeup, scant research has examined how racially minoritized groups, in particular Black youth, interact with such technologies. Subsequently, issues of race and racism continue to be largely neglected within the HCI community, contributing to technology that marginalizes Black people. Leveraging Black feminist epistemology as a critical framework, we engage Black students in the ideation process of conversational agents as speech-based interfaces, drawing attention to how race, gender, and class influence their design choices. Our findings reveal that Black students prefer custom-designed conversational agents that are modeled after Black women, possessing knowledge of Black culture and serving as life coaches to help them achieve their goals. We also confirm that the current design of speech-based interfaces perpetuates racism, reinforcing whiteness as the norm.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Collaborative and social computing.

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Section: Designing Technology For Children With Childrenmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Resisting Racism in Tech Design

Rankin

Henderson

2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…The ubiquitously pervasive nature of identity violence thus requires strategies for management rather than avoidance (Anisman and Merali, 1999;Moghaddam et al, 2002;Brondolo et al, 2009b). While some do not game due to harassment or material inequity (McDaniel, 2016;Rankin and Han, 2019), most adopt strategies to reduce its impact. Players hide their racial and gendered axes through avatar and username selection, masking their digital self-representations to avoid harassment (Gray, 2012a,b;Fox and Tang, 2017;Ortiz, 2019;Vella et al, 2020).…”

Section: Discrimination Across the Contexts Virtual And Analogmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Players withdraw from online socialization altogether, forgoing chat, microphone use, and tools for gaming's social benefits (McDaniel, 2016;Fox and Tang, 2017;McLean and Griffiths, 2019;Vella et al, 2020). Players with non-Euro-American accents and/or neuro-physical atypicalities employ similar strategies to control their self-disclosure Ortiz, 2019;Rankin and Han, 2019). BIPOC players normalize near constant racial epithets, minstrelsy, and tokenization (Leonard, 2006;Gray, 2018;Ortiz, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Within gaming studies, Rankin (Rankin and Han, 2019), Gray (Gray, 2012b(Gray, , 2018, Shaw (Shaw and Friesem, 2016), and Gibbons (Gibbons, 2015;Holloway et al, 2019) depict tensions between the benefits of online gaming, the costs of adapting to discriminatory violence, and the moments of successful strategies where systemic barriers are overcome. They demonstrate the plurality of player experiences at the ranging intersections of material inequalities and histories of stigma: how variable beliefs, perceptions, and experiences are even when analyses are limited to single demographic axes.…”

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A Taxonomy of Coping Strategies and Discriminatory Stressors in Digital Gaming

Passmore

Mandryk

2020

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Digital gaming's many benefits starkly contradict its well-cited toxicity. To accurately understand and compare how players cope with discriminatory stress in the context of play, 241 US players were surveyed on recurring sources of discrimination during gameplay and strategies for coping across ranging experiential prompts. Qualitative analysis created a taxonomy of discriminatory targets, discriminatory acts, and coping strategies specific to online digital play. We compare experiences, perceptions, and beliefs around coping across intersections of race, gender, and class (with notes on ability and age) and describe how player identities inform in-game behavior and exposure to types of discrimination and how coping strategies are navigated. We discuss the accumulative, anticipatory, and intergenerational nature of discriminatory stress in gaming, its stratified effects on well-being, and the role of discrimination in belief formation as well as ability to advocate for oneself and others.

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Intersectionality in Computer Science: A Systematic Literature Review

Szlavi,

Hansen,

Husnes

et al. 2023

2023 IEEE/ACM 4th Workshop on Gender Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering (GEICSE)

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Gender equality, as well as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), in computer science (CS) is primarily limited to binary gender diversity. It is known that women are heavily underrepresented in CS, but substantial parts of the DEI issues are still unexplored. Intersectionality provides a more nuanced perspective of equality as it acknowledges exclusion and discrimination coming from overlapping layers of people's identities, e.g. gender, ethnicity, dis/ability, nationality, socioeconomic status, age, religion, and sexuality, in combination. It is important to address systemic barriers, bias, and stereotypes in CS through the lenses of intersectionality. There is a growing literature on challenges of women and binary gender diversity in CS, but a limitation to many of these investigations is that they look at only one dimension of discrimination rather than the complexity of intersectional challenges. That is why the research objective of this study is to provide information on the relation of intersectionality and CS, using the Systematic Literature Review methodology. The results show that there is still scarce research explicitly connected to the concept of intersectionality in CS, but awareness is increasing. The SLR also reveals various challenges and success factors related to intersectionality, which call for further attention.

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Exploring the Plurality of Black Women's Gameplay Experiences

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

Resisting Racism in Tech Design

Resisting Racism in Tech Design

A Taxonomy of Coping Strategies and Discriminatory Stressors in Digital Gaming

Intersectionality in Computer Science: A Systematic Literature Review

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