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THE KID IN THE FRIDGE: SACRIFICIAL CHILDREN AND VENGEFUL MASCULINITY IN CONTEMPORARY VIDEOGAMES
by Emma Reay First published March 2023. Download full article PDF here. Abstract A recent content analysis of child characters in contemporary videogames found that over a third of the digital kids recorded in the dataset were murder victims – their lives cut short by drownings, shootings, stabbings, hangings, intentional traffic collisions, cannibalism, murderous religious Continue reading
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