%0 Journal Article
%T The meanings of racist and sexist trash talk for men of color: A cultural sociological approach to studying gaming culture
%A Stephanie M Ortiz
%J New Media & Society
%@ 1461-7315
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1461444818814252
%X Scholars have documented how people of color experience gaming culture as violent, yet it is unclear how this violence shapes conceptualizations of gaming culture. Undertaking a cultural sociological approach that foregrounds meaning-making, I demonstrate that trash talk is a useful site to explore how social actors construct and negotiate gaming culture. Analyzing data from 12 qualitative interviews with men of color, I argue that trash talk is a practice of boundary-making that reproduces racism and sexism. Respondent narratives about gaming culture vis-ид-vis trash talk thus show how gaming culture is socially constructed in everyday interactions, and bound to cultural repertoires and structural conditions that exist outside of gaming. This study provides a potential avenue to explore the socially constructed and dynamic nature of gaming culture and gamer identity
%K Boundary-making
%K gaming culture
%K racism
%K sexism
%K trash talk
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444818814252