PS Berge
Biographic Data
| ID | 6714824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | PS Berge |
| GIVEN NAMES | PS |
| FAMILY NAME | Berge |
| SIGNATURE | BERGE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8984-7432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“I Took a Deep Breath and Came Out as Gc”
In 2020, the subreddit r/GenderCritical—one of the most active “gender critical” (GC) spaces on Reddit—was banned by the platform for promoting hateful, transphobic conduct. Following the closure of r/GenderCritical (and subsequent banning of dozens of high-profile, transphobic subreddits including r/ActualWomen, r/GenderCriticalSociety, and r/truelesbians), GC users—especially those in North America and Western Europe—migrated to more hidden, in…
Beyond the Deck
Review of: Beyond the Deck: Critical Essays on Magic: The Gathering and Its Influence , Shelly Jones (ed.) (2023) Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 301 pp., ISBN 978-1-47668-316-4, $39.95
Imagine a place
With over 300 million users, the voice, video, and text chat application Discord has been steadily emerging as a dominant site of fan communities and practices. As the platform continues to grow and to court audiences beyond the site's gaming origins, fans have flocked to the site. To critically consider how fandom has developed on Discord, we analyze how power structures and intimacies between and across fandoms are constructed across three leve…
The Table and the Tomb
This article contends with the transphobic logics perpetuated by the “world's greatest roleplaying game,” Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). Bringing together game texts and scraped social media data from reactionary D&D fans, I argue that despite cursory improvements in official representation, D&D's hostility to trans play is inscribed in the game's engagement of fantasy realism —a culturally sculpted “common sense” that rearticulates the logics of esta…
Answerusyoutube
In the summer of 2020, dozens of high-profile influencers in videogaming entertainment were accused of sexual harassment and predatory behavior. Among them, popular gaming YouTuber Craig Thompson (username Mini Ladd) confessed on Twitter to sexting minors but resumed uploading content to his YouTube channel one month later, resulting in public outcry. Thompson’s return to YouTube, as a case study, illustrates how predatory influencers can manipul…
"Go Back in Your Fetus Cave"
In the summer of 2020, dozens of high-profile influencers in videogaming entertainment were accused of sexual harassment and predatory behavior. Among these, popular gaming YouTuber Craig Thompson (username 'Mini Ladd') confessed on Twitter to grooming minors but resumed uploading content to his YouTube channel one month later, resulting in public outcry. Thompson’s return to YouTube provides a case study in how predatory influencers can manipula…
Mapping Discord’s Darkside
Scholars and journalists have noted that Discord, a social application oriented around voice/video chat communities and popular amongst gamers, has a history of harboring white supremacist and toxic groups. Discord has recently undertaken a public rebranding to distance itself from white supremacist, alt-right, and hateful content through a commitment to proactive moderation (Brown, 2020). However, Discord relies extensively on third-party servic…
Mapping Discord’s darkside
Discord, a popular community chat application, has rhetorically distanced itself from its associations with white supremacist content through a public commitment to proactive moderation. However, Discord relies extensively on third-party services (like bots and server bulletins), which have been overlooked in their role in facilitating hateful networks. This study notes how Discord offloads searchability to server bulletin sites like Disboard, to…
Mapping Discord’s darkside
Discord, a popular community chat application, has rhetorically distanced itself from its associations with white supremacist content through a public commitment to proactive moderation. However, Discord relies extensively on third-party services (like bots and server bulletins), which have been overlooked in their role in facilitating hateful networks. This study notes how Discord offloads searchability to server bulletin sites like Disboard, to…
"Go Back in Your Fetus Cave"
In the summer of 2020, dozens of high-profile influencers in videogaming entertainment were accused of sexual harassment and predatory behavior. Among these, popular gaming YouTuber Craig Thompson (username 'Mini Ladd') confessed on Twitter to grooming minors but resumed uploading content to his YouTube channel one month later, resulting in public outcry. Thompson’s return to YouTube provides a case study in how predatory influencers can manipula…
Mapping Discord’s Darkside
Scholars and journalists have noted that Discord, a social application oriented around voice/video chat communities and popular amongst gamers, has a history of harboring white supremacist and toxic groups. Discord has recently undertaken a public rebranding to distance itself from white supremacist, alt-right, and hateful content through a commitment to proactive moderation (Brown, 2020). However, Discord relies extensively on third-party servic…
Mapping Discord’s darkside
Discord, a popular community chat application, has rhetorically distanced itself from its associations with white supremacist content through a public commitment to proactive moderation. However, Discord relies extensively on third-party services (like bots and server bulletins), which have been overlooked in their role in facilitating hateful networks. This study notes how Discord offloads searchability to server bulletin sites like Disboard, to…
The Table and the Tomb
This article contends with the transphobic logics perpetuated by the “world's greatest roleplaying game,” Dungeons & Dragons (D&D). Bringing together game texts and scraped social media data from reactionary D&D fans, I argue that despite cursory improvements in official representation, D&D's hostility to trans play is inscribed in the game's engagement of fantasy realism —a culturally sculpted “common sense” that rearticulates the logics of esta…
Answerusyoutube
In the summer of 2020, dozens of high-profile influencers in videogaming entertainment were accused of sexual harassment and predatory behavior. Among them, popular gaming YouTuber Craig Thompson (username Mini Ladd) confessed on Twitter to sexting minors but resumed uploading content to his YouTube channel one month later, resulting in public outcry. Thompson’s return to YouTube, as a case study, illustrates how predatory influencers can manipul…
Beyond the Deck
Review of: Beyond the Deck: Critical Essays on Magic: The Gathering and Its Influence , Shelly Jones (ed.) (2023) Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 301 pp., ISBN 978-1-47668-316-4, $39.95
Imagine a place
With over 300 million users, the voice, video, and text chat application Discord has been steadily emerging as a dominant site of fan communities and practices. As the platform continues to grow and to court audiences beyond the site's gaming origins, fans have flocked to the site. To critically consider how fandom has developed on Discord, we analyze how power structures and intimacies between and across fandoms are constructed across three leve…
“I Took a Deep Breath and Came Out as Gc”
In 2020, the subreddit r/GenderCritical—one of the most active “gender critical” (GC) spaces on Reddit—was banned by the platform for promoting hateful, transphobic conduct. Following the closure of r/GenderCritical (and subsequent banning of dozens of high-profile, transphobic subreddits including r/ActualWomen, r/GenderCriticalSociety, and r/truelesbians), GC users—especially those in North America and Western Europe—migrated to more hidden, in…
Sociology (7 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Media and Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Digital Games and Media (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social media (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works) · Affordance (3 works)