Antonia Fox
PhD student

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Biography

I graduated from the University of Winchester in 2015 with a BA (Hons) in Sociology before doing an MA in Sociology and Social Research at Aston University in Birmingham.

During my BA and MA, I developed an academic curiosity in something I already pursued as a hobby, in Video Games and Gender. For my undergraduate dissertation I focused on gender representations in Video Games. As my interest in Online Cultures developed during my MA, I then conducted research on the online communities surrounding video games, examining femininity in online game streaming on Twitch.tv. As a member of the community I took a feminist and digital-ethnography approach, observing and interviewing female streamers. Whilst completing my dissertation I was given the opportunity to discuss the hostile environment for female streamers on live TV during a segment on the Victoria Derbyshire show on BBC2.

I have an interest in digital cultures, specifically how gender and sexuality are constructed and negotiated online