Titlebook: Gamergate and Anti-Feminism in the Digital Age; Jessica O‘Donnell Book 2022 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusi

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96917-6sions on the feminist response to backlashes, as well as the overall significance of Gamergate in relation to wider culture. The chapter reflects on the meaning and motivation behind Gamergate, what it tells us about the gaming community, and the cycles of anti-feminist backlashes that Gamergate is a part of.

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Changes Following Gamergate,terms of women’s representation within videogames. It is clear that Gamergate, unintentionally, contributed to making feminism and anti-harassment a ‘fashionable issue’, although looking further ahead, seven years after Gamergate began, this ‘fashion’ has arguably passed.

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Belongingness and Civil Society,ity. Rather than being a quest for ‘ethics in games journalism’ as asserted, Gamergate instead seemed to stem from anxieties that women and minorities were being ‘pandered to’ by the games industry, the result of which was (or would be) the ruination of videogames.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20634-6 comedy, to direct engagement with harassers, to ‘celebrity endorsements’. The purpose here is to illustrate the diversity of approaches that can be utilised in the digital age of anti-feminism as well as how these correspond to methods of resistance seen in prior waves of feminist activism.

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The Militaristic Discourse of Anti-feminism,apter also discusses Gamergate’s conception of a ‘PR War’, and how the careful construction of suitable ‘narratives’ is of increasing importance to anti-feminist groups, particularly in the ‘post-truth’ era. Not to be ignored, this chapter also includes a discussion on the feminist response and utilisation of the chatlogs.