Adrienne Shaw, host of DiGRA's The Playful is Political roundtable, proves that gamers do not require diversity in gaming because they do not identify as the characters that they play, they consider the characters to be extensions of themselves in the game world.
I'd like to thank Kerberos and Phil Shill for all the help researching for this video.
Sources:
"He could be a bunny rabbit for all I care"
http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/11313.28005.pdf
Do you identify as a gamer?
https://archive.today/Dq9BD
Death of Gamers
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/08/the-death-of-the-gamers-and-the-women-who-killed-them/
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DevinWilson/20140828/224450/A_Guide_to_Ending_quotGamersquot.php
http://kotaku.com/we-might-be-witnessing-the-death-of-an-identity-1628203079/all
Dan Golding "End of Gamers"
https://archive.today/5jvcD
Cohen's Questions that Shaw was using:
http://www.communicationcache.com/uploads/1/0/8/8/10887248/defining_identification-_a_theoretical_look_at_the_identification_of_audiences_with_media_characters.pdf
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