{"id":28232,"date":"2013-10-23T03:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T03:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-female-representation-in-games-affects-women\/"},"modified":"2013-10-23T03:37:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T03:37:40","slug":"how-female-representation-in-games-affects-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/how-female-representation-in-games-affects-women\/","title":{"rendered":"How female representation in games affects women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2013\/10\/21\/4863474\/how-female-representation-in-games-affects-women'>How female representation in games affects women<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/polygondotcom.tumblr.com\/post\/64780195524\/how-female-representation-in-games-affects-women\">polygondotcom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Women who play as over-sexualized female characters in games are more likely to objectify themselves and participate in rape myth acceptance, according to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/vhil.stanford.edu\/pubs\/2013\/fox-chb-sexualized-virtual-selves.pdf\">Stanford study<\/a> published Oct. 11 in Computers and Behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers used 86 female participants between the ages of 18 and 41. Women played as an avatar dressed in either revealing or conservative clothing; some avatars were also modified to look like their player.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2013\/10\/21\/4863474\/how-female-representation-in-games-affects-women\">(Read the rest)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How female representation in games affects women polygondotcom: Women who play as over-sexualized female characters in games are more likely to objectify themselves and participate in rape myth acceptance, according to a recent Stanford study published Oct. 11 in Computers and Behavior. Researchers used 86 female participants between the ages of 18 and 41. Women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-28232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7lm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}