shira chess
... media studies | gender studies | communication studies ...
Writing Samples
A 36-24-36 Cerebrum: Gendering Video Game Play through Advertising
This is an article-length version of one of my dissertation chapters, which has been invited as a revise and resubmit from the journal Critical Studies in Media Communication.
How to Play a Feminist
This article won 2nd place for the McKinney Essay Writing Award (2008), and is forthcoming at the journal Thirdspace
Going with the Flo: Gender, Play, & Work in Diner Dash
An article on the Diner Dash games, which has been invited as a revise and resubmit from the journal Feminist Media Studies.
The C-Word: Queering the Cylons
This paper was published in Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Mission Accomplished or Mission Frakked Up?. Eds. Josef Steiff and Tristan D. Tamplin. Chicago, Ill: Open Court Press.
Playing the Bad Guy: Grand Theft Auto in the Panopticon
This paper was published in Digital Gameplay: Essays on the Nexus of Game and Gamer, Nate Garrelts, ed. McFarland & Company (2005). It was also read at the University of Pittsburgh in a series on new media, October 24, 2005.
My Gnome, My Guild, My Self: Collective-Projective Identities in MMOs
Presented at National Popular Culture Association (April 2007), and 1st place winner of the McKinney Essay Writing Award (2007)
(En)Gendering the Boob Tube: Technology, Agency, and the Action TV Femme
The shortened (one chapter) version of my masters thesis