To investigate the effects of gendered characters and gaming skills on sex inference and teammate choice in PUBG Mobile,a 2(actual sex:man vs.woman)x2(gaming skill level:high vs.low)x2(gendered character:male characte...To investigate the effects of gendered characters and gaming skills on sex inference and teammate choice in PUBG Mobile,a 2(actual sex:man vs.woman)x2(gaming skill level:high vs.low)x2(gendered character:male character vs.female character)between-subject experiment was conducted(N=248).As hypothesized,the choice of characters was influenced by the participants'level of gaming skills.Those with high gaming skills were more inclined to select characters of the opposite gender,while those with low gaming skills were more likely to choose characters of their own gender.In addition,the effect of gaming skill cues,such as past game records,was more significant than the effect of gendered character cues.Players with high gaming skills were perceived as males,regardless of the gender of their chosen characters,while players with low gaming skills were considered females.Thus,female players with high gaming skills preferred to select male characters to represent themselves,but they did not believe that players with good records could be females.And the consideration of"expertise"influenced the selection of teammates.Findings are discussed in light of the Social Identity model of Deindividuation Effects(SIDE)and the stereotypes-as-explanations account.展开更多
Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse , published in 2006 by Blackwell Publishing, is an eminent monograph in the study of sociolinguistics. This paper begins by offering a ge...Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse , published in 2006 by Blackwell Publishing, is an eminent monograph in the study of sociolinguistics. This paper begins by offering a general introduction to the book, goes on to conduct a detailed chapter-by-chapter review and then ends by stressing its three merits and demerits, namely: On the one hand, this book successfully connects theory with empirical research; It has largely avoided drawing simplistic conclusions; It has wide social implications. However, on the other, this monograph is not immune to gender bias and its conclusions are limited to a certain social sphere.展开更多
This research tests for differences in mean class averages between male and female faculty for questions on a student rating of instruction form at one university in the Midwest are considered to be in the category of...This research tests for differences in mean class averages between male and female faculty for questions on a student rating of instruction form at one university in the Midwest are considered to be in the category of “very high research activity” by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. Differences in variances of class averages are also examined for male and female faculty. Tests are conducted by first considering all classes across the entire university and then classes just within the College of Science and Mathematics. The proportion of classes taught by female instructors in which the average male student rating was higher than the average female student rating was compared to the proportion of classes taught by male instructors in which the average male student rating was higher than the average female student rating. Results are discussed.展开更多
Through a close reading, this article explores a few aspects of gendered dissent in Li Ang＇s story, ＂The Devil in a Chastity Belt,＂ which reveals the ambivalence and irony of a woman＇s participation in the Taiwan ...Through a close reading, this article explores a few aspects of gendered dissent in Li Ang＇s story, ＂The Devil in a Chastity Belt,＂ which reveals the ambivalence and irony of a woman＇s participation in the Taiwan Residents opposition movement. Instead of writing a stereotypical work of political fiction for the opposition movement that she supports, Li Ang interrogates the problematic intersection of gender and politics, while reclaiming some of the neglected aspects of oppositional history. While recognizing the inevitability of historical contingency, she nevertheless questions the politically-motivated choice of asceticism, heroism, and sacrifice over individual and familial well-being. Li juxtaposes seemingly trivial and disorderly details of ordinary life against the apparently important and grandiose arena of national politics, creating tension through their interaction and contention. She employs images--including the Devil, the female body, and sensory feelings--to perform gendered dissent. While the lyrical and trivial discourse gradually disrupts the political and didactic, the story＇s open-ended conclusion inspires complex interpretations of the enigmatic symbol： the Devil wearing a chastity belt.展开更多
Advertising becomes indispensable in modern times due to its wide influence on consumers and it is presented in formsof various media including newspapers, radio and television, etc. Advertisement, with its visual and...Advertising becomes indispensable in modern times due to its wide influence on consumers and it is presented in formsof various media including newspapers, radio and television, etc. Advertisement, with its visual and verbal features, is often studiedby many scholars from a linguistic perspective. This article will compare two print advertisements in magazines targeting males andfemales respectively in terms of gendered social actors regarding multimodality and intertextuality.展开更多
Bildung is the process of the individual growing into the subject in time and space.As a bildungsroman,Abraham Chan’s The Rise of David Levinsky unfolds the spatial subject is produced through bodily spatial activiti...Bildung is the process of the individual growing into the subject in time and space.As a bildungsroman,Abraham Chan’s The Rise of David Levinsky unfolds the spatial subject is produced through bodily spatial activities in the complicated social relations.Experiencing the spatial transformation and conflict between the“feminized”Jewish community in Russia and the“heroized”space in America,the protagonist David shows his subjective desire by gendered performing to reconstruct the gendered subject in spatial movement.展开更多
In How to Read Lacan, noted cultural theorist, Slavoj Zizek, addresses a ＂comedic,＂ British, beer commercial to highlight an element of Lacanian psychoanalysis （i.e., obj et petit a）. Although his use of the comm...In How to Read Lacan, noted cultural theorist, Slavoj Zizek, addresses a ＂comedic,＂ British, beer commercial to highlight an element of Lacanian psychoanalysis （i.e., obj et petit a）. Although his use of the commercial serves his purpose, Zizek only dedicates one paragraph to it. This work significantly expands Zizek＇s initial interpretation by （1） contextualizing the commercial＇s plotline via comparison to other, similar mythological plots; （2） examining how the visual arrangement and narrative structure work to construct gender; and （3） addressing beauty via the Lacanian ＂demand＂ and ＂desires＂ made manifest within the text.展开更多
If women ＂violate＂ the unwritten laws and codes of honor, which are supposed to ＂damage＂ the social reputation of the family in the community, they are killed in the name of honor, in order to restore the perceiv...If women ＂violate＂ the unwritten laws and codes of honor, which are supposed to ＂damage＂ the social reputation of the family in the community, they are killed in the name of honor, in order to restore the perceived ＂lost honor＂. This paper explores the phenomenon of honor killings by examining the general discourses and scholarly critiques, regarding the implications for associating honor crimes with Islam and restricted to the Muslim-dominant societies, which of course create a binary between ＂superior＂ West and ＂backward＂ East. Scholarly research on honor crimes pinpoints the great debate on associating such crimes to culture and especially to Muslim culture. The current study attempts to identify the implications of essentialist approach of honor killings that portraits women as ＂helpless＂ and ＂passive＂ victims and men as ＂powerful＂ and ＂dominant＂ perpetrators. This paper discusses as well how cultural relativism is used to blame Muslim immigrants as responsible for honor crimes. In conclusion, the researcher argues that by holding such a view has its implication since it portraits ＂East＂ as an oppressive culture where the brutality of such crimes is justified by tradition, religion, cultural and customary norms and laws. Therefore, in order to avoid these implications, the paper discusses another approach that considers honor killings as gendered violence, perpetuated by the kinship and marriage structures of patriarchal societies.展开更多
This research in the field of Media Sociology and Gender Studies compares the representation of death and of female corpses in two crime TV series produced in the last decade in two very different contexts: the Italia...This research in the field of Media Sociology and Gender Studies compares the representation of death and of female corpses in two crime TV series produced in the last decade in two very different contexts: the Italian series RIS – Delitti imperfetti (Canale 5) and the Irish one The Fall (BBC Northern Ireland). The interest for this theme is born out of the awareness of the gravity of a phenomenon such as gendered violence. The starting assumption here is that media representations play a key role in fueling or counteracting the culture that feeds gendered violence: this is true both for news media and fictional media, able to shape our social imaginary. At the basis of this research there are three questions: whether the violence, victims and perpetrators represented in media coincide with the actual reality of the above-mentioned countries;what kind of frame is the most commonly used to represent male violence against women;and whether violence itself and the dead female body are represented with any kind of eroticization or spectacularization. To answer these questions, I will carry out a quantitative and qualitative analysis, looking at Feminist Film Theory in order to resolve he last issue.展开更多
文摘To investigate the effects of gendered characters and gaming skills on sex inference and teammate choice in PUBG Mobile,a 2(actual sex:man vs.woman)x2(gaming skill level:high vs.low)x2(gendered character:male character vs.female character)between-subject experiment was conducted(N=248).As hypothesized,the choice of characters was influenced by the participants'level of gaming skills.Those with high gaming skills were more inclined to select characters of the opposite gender,while those with low gaming skills were more likely to choose characters of their own gender.In addition,the effect of gaming skill cues,such as past game records,was more significant than the effect of gendered character cues.Players with high gaming skills were perceived as males,regardless of the gender of their chosen characters,while players with low gaming skills were considered females.Thus,female players with high gaming skills preferred to select male characters to represent themselves,but they did not believe that players with good records could be females.And the consideration of"expertise"influenced the selection of teammates.Findings are discussed in light of the Social Identity model of Deindividuation Effects(SIDE)and the stereotypes-as-explanations account.
文摘Gendered Talk at Work: Constructing Gender Identity Through Workplace Discourse , published in 2006 by Blackwell Publishing, is an eminent monograph in the study of sociolinguistics. This paper begins by offering a general introduction to the book, goes on to conduct a detailed chapter-by-chapter review and then ends by stressing its three merits and demerits, namely: On the one hand, this book successfully connects theory with empirical research; It has largely avoided drawing simplistic conclusions; It has wide social implications. However, on the other, this monograph is not immune to gender bias and its conclusions are limited to a certain social sphere.
文摘This research tests for differences in mean class averages between male and female faculty for questions on a student rating of instruction form at one university in the Midwest are considered to be in the category of “very high research activity” by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. Differences in variances of class averages are also examined for male and female faculty. Tests are conducted by first considering all classes across the entire university and then classes just within the College of Science and Mathematics. The proportion of classes taught by female instructors in which the average male student rating was higher than the average female student rating was compared to the proportion of classes taught by male instructors in which the average male student rating was higher than the average female student rating. Results are discussed.
文摘Through a close reading, this article explores a few aspects of gendered dissent in Li Ang＇s story, ＂The Devil in a Chastity Belt,＂ which reveals the ambivalence and irony of a woman＇s participation in the Taiwan Residents opposition movement. Instead of writing a stereotypical work of political fiction for the opposition movement that she supports, Li Ang interrogates the problematic intersection of gender and politics, while reclaiming some of the neglected aspects of oppositional history. While recognizing the inevitability of historical contingency, she nevertheless questions the politically-motivated choice of asceticism, heroism, and sacrifice over individual and familial well-being. Li juxtaposes seemingly trivial and disorderly details of ordinary life against the apparently important and grandiose arena of national politics, creating tension through their interaction and contention. She employs images--including the Devil, the female body, and sensory feelings--to perform gendered dissent. While the lyrical and trivial discourse gradually disrupts the political and didactic, the story＇s open-ended conclusion inspires complex interpretations of the enigmatic symbol： the Devil wearing a chastity belt.
文摘Advertising becomes indispensable in modern times due to its wide influence on consumers and it is presented in formsof various media including newspapers, radio and television, etc. Advertisement, with its visual and verbal features, is often studiedby many scholars from a linguistic perspective. This article will compare two print advertisements in magazines targeting males andfemales respectively in terms of gendered social actors regarding multimodality and intertextuality.
基金this paper is funded by Project:“Research on E.L.Doctorow’s Bildungsroman”(18A369),sponsored by Department of Education of Hunan Province.
文摘Bildung is the process of the individual growing into the subject in time and space.As a bildungsroman,Abraham Chan’s The Rise of David Levinsky unfolds the spatial subject is produced through bodily spatial activities in the complicated social relations.Experiencing the spatial transformation and conflict between the“feminized”Jewish community in Russia and the“heroized”space in America,the protagonist David shows his subjective desire by gendered performing to reconstruct the gendered subject in spatial movement.
文摘In How to Read Lacan, noted cultural theorist, Slavoj Zizek, addresses a ＂comedic,＂ British, beer commercial to highlight an element of Lacanian psychoanalysis （i.e., obj et petit a）. Although his use of the commercial serves his purpose, Zizek only dedicates one paragraph to it. This work significantly expands Zizek＇s initial interpretation by （1） contextualizing the commercial＇s plotline via comparison to other, similar mythological plots; （2） examining how the visual arrangement and narrative structure work to construct gender; and （3） addressing beauty via the Lacanian ＂demand＂ and ＂desires＂ made manifest within the text.
文摘If women ＂violate＂ the unwritten laws and codes of honor, which are supposed to ＂damage＂ the social reputation of the family in the community, they are killed in the name of honor, in order to restore the perceived ＂lost honor＂. This paper explores the phenomenon of honor killings by examining the general discourses and scholarly critiques, regarding the implications for associating honor crimes with Islam and restricted to the Muslim-dominant societies, which of course create a binary between ＂superior＂ West and ＂backward＂ East. Scholarly research on honor crimes pinpoints the great debate on associating such crimes to culture and especially to Muslim culture. The current study attempts to identify the implications of essentialist approach of honor killings that portraits women as ＂helpless＂ and ＂passive＂ victims and men as ＂powerful＂ and ＂dominant＂ perpetrators. This paper discusses as well how cultural relativism is used to blame Muslim immigrants as responsible for honor crimes. In conclusion, the researcher argues that by holding such a view has its implication since it portraits ＂East＂ as an oppressive culture where the brutality of such crimes is justified by tradition, religion, cultural and customary norms and laws. Therefore, in order to avoid these implications, the paper discusses another approach that considers honor killings as gendered violence, perpetuated by the kinship and marriage structures of patriarchal societies.
文摘This research in the field of Media Sociology and Gender Studies compares the representation of death and of female corpses in two crime TV series produced in the last decade in two very different contexts: the Italian series RIS – Delitti imperfetti (Canale 5) and the Irish one The Fall (BBC Northern Ireland). The interest for this theme is born out of the awareness of the gravity of a phenomenon such as gendered violence. The starting assumption here is that media representations play a key role in fueling or counteracting the culture that feeds gendered violence: this is true both for news media and fictional media, able to shape our social imaginary. At the basis of this research there are three questions: whether the violence, victims and perpetrators represented in media coincide with the actual reality of the above-mentioned countries;what kind of frame is the most commonly used to represent male violence against women;and whether violence itself and the dead female body are represented with any kind of eroticization or spectacularization. To answer these questions, I will carry out a quantitative and qualitative analysis, looking at Feminist Film Theory in order to resolve he last issue.
