sh.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • harvard-anglia-ruskin-university
  • apa-old-doi-prefix.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-harvard.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-oxford.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Queera aliens och intergalaktiskdiaspora: Transhumanismens hegemoni i The Sims 4
Södertörn University, School of Culture and Education, Gender Studies.
2021 (Swedish)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This study examines how queerness can be dislocated in play and the portrayal of digital entities in the computer game The Sims 4. More specifically, in what way its virtually simulated anthropocentric orientations become disoriented through alien deviation. The study aims to identify connections between the game’s transhuman hegemony, alien lives, and queer experiences. Through queer phenomenology, along with performativity theory, the study concludes that aliens become queer objects in the game world by failing to live up to human ideals, which can serve as a symbolic reference to deviations from dominant orientations, norms, and hegemonies in real life.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. , p. 53
Keywords [sv]
spelstudier, queerteori, posthumanism, the sims, fenomenologi, performativitet
National Category
Gender Studies
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-47957OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-47957DiVA, id: diva2:1624267
Subject / course
Gender Studies
Supervisors
Examiners
Available from: 2022-01-17 Created: 2022-01-03 Last updated: 2022-01-17Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

fulltext(2235 kB)164 downloads
File information
File name FULLTEXT02.pdfFile size 2235 kBChecksum SHA-512
9e48411b8b9023d2cef6478046b9f8b7787330b0015a618a0e84bdc9ec1300573669e0a29f96a99411b8400a789eaebf7675e92b30034c1be9e9fff874a617b3
Type fulltextMimetype application/pdf

By organisation
Gender Studies
Gender Studies

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar
Total: 164 downloads
The number of downloads is the sum of all downloads of full texts. It may include eg previous versions that are now no longer available

urn-nbn

Altmetric score

urn-nbn
Total: 221 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • harvard-anglia-ruskin-university
  • apa-old-doi-prefix.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-harvard.csl
  • sodertorns-hogskola-oxford.csl
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf