Review of: Melanie Krause: Weibliche Nutzer von Computerspielen. Differenzierte Betrachtung und Erklärung der Motive und Verhaltensweisen weiblicher Nutzer von Computerspielen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2010.
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https://doi.org/10.14766/982Keywords:
Medien, Spiel, Computer, Geschlecht, GenderAbstract
This study, located in the field of communication studies and published in 2010, deals with a quantitative description of the user behavior and the user motives of women playing computer games. Melanie Krause argues strictly within the disciplinary boundaries of recent media use research. Radically new is her attempt at a typologization of the female players, for which, based on the collected data on the women’s user behavior and user motives, she established four clusters. These are identified with four types of female players, which are, however, highly normative. From the perspective of critical gender studies, a reflection on and discussion of the normative conditions that influenced the typologization would be desirable.
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