{"id":24907,"date":"2012-08-22T03:57:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T03:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24907"},"modified":"2016-05-25T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T17:02:33","slug":"digital-elves-as-a-racial-other-in-video-games-acknowledgment-and-avoidance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24907","title":{"rendered":"Digital Elves as a Racial Other in Video Games: Acknowledgment and Avoidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1555412012454224\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Elves as a Racial Other in Video Games: Acknowledgment and Avoidance<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gac.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Games and Culture<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gac.sagepub.com\/content\/7\/5.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 7, Number 5<\/a> (September 2012)<br \/>\npages 375-396<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/1555412012454224\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/1555412012454224<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:natpoor@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Nathaniel Poor<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nBrooklyn, New York, USA<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elf\" target=\"_blank\">Elves<\/a> are a long-standing cultural trope in the West, where they have often represented the other and fears associated with otherness. Elves continue to do the same cultural work today and are a fixture of fantasy settings. Fantasy-based video games portray elves in a variety of ways across a few types of elves (<strong>high elves, half-elves, and dark elves<\/strong>), but there are consistencies to their portrayal across such spaces. Given the dearth of work on elves in modern narratives, the cultural work of elves as the other in video games is analyzed here. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_of_Warcraft\" target=\"_blank\">World of Warcraft<\/a> <\/em>(WoW), <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/EverQuest_II\" target=\"_blank\">EverQuest II<\/a><\/em>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Elder_Scrolls\" target=\"_blank\">The Elder Scrolls<\/a><\/em> series, and the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dragon_Age\" target=\"_blank\">Dragon Age<\/a><\/em> series were studied, with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._R._R._Tolkien\" target=\"_blank\">Tolkien<\/a> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dungeons_%26_Dragons\" target=\"_blank\">Dungeons &amp; Dragons<\/a><\/em> (D&amp;D) as background. Although WoW is somewhat exceptional in its portrayal of elves, digital elves are mostly portrayed similarly to a historically idealized real-world Western minority.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/gac.sagepub.com\/content\/7\/5\/375.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Elves as a Racial Other in Video Games: Acknowledgment and Avoidance Games and Culture Volume 7, Number 5 (September 2012) pages 375-396 DOI: 10.1177\/1555412012454224 Nathaniel Poor Brooklyn, New York, USA Elves are a long-standing cultural trope in the West, where they have often represented the other and fears associated with otherness. Elves continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8],"tags":[11596,11597],"class_list":["post-24907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-games-and-culture","tag-nathaniel-poor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47116,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24907\/revisions\/47116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}