Shira Chess

1.2k total citations
23 papers, 581 citations indexed

About

Shira Chess is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shira Chess has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 581 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 13 papers in Gender Studies and 4 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Shira Chess's work include Digital Games and Media (18 papers), Gender, Feminism, and Media (10 papers) and Media, Gender, and Advertising (5 papers). Shira Chess is often cited by papers focused on Digital Games and Media (18 papers), Gender, Feminism, and Media (10 papers) and Media, Gender, and Advertising (5 papers). Shira Chess collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Canada. Shira Chess's co-authors include Adrienne Shaw, Adrienne Massanari, Christopher Paul, Paul Booth, Nathaniel Evans, Mia Consalvo, Anne Teresa Demo, Charlotte Kroløkke, Jessica Maddox and Mike McCoy and has published in prestigious journals such as New Media & Society, Information Communication & Society and Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media.

In The Last Decade

Shira Chess

23 papers receiving 522 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Shira Chess United States 13 420 257 99 75 64 23 581
Anastasia Salter United States 9 305 0.7× 190 0.7× 53 0.5× 82 1.1× 44 0.7× 51 456
Jenny Sundén Sweden 13 279 0.7× 225 0.9× 149 1.5× 103 1.4× 19 0.3× 48 514
Vincent Cicchirillo United States 12 310 0.7× 75 0.3× 171 1.7× 37 0.5× 35 0.5× 25 553
Helen Thornham United Kingdom 11 230 0.5× 105 0.4× 89 0.9× 41 0.5× 21 0.3× 32 363
Lisbeth Klastrup Denmark 10 208 0.5× 50 0.2× 80 0.8× 31 0.4× 24 0.4× 26 362
Diane Carr United Kingdom 10 238 0.6× 61 0.2× 63 0.6× 23 0.3× 120 1.9× 19 405
Tracy Kennedy Canada 7 228 0.5× 63 0.2× 70 0.7× 38 0.5× 31 0.5× 11 314
Pekka Mertala Finland 16 140 0.3× 132 0.5× 33 0.3× 18 0.2× 90 1.4× 43 655
Jack Z. Bratich Netherlands 12 288 0.7× 116 0.5× 111 1.1× 30 0.4× 6 0.1× 33 513
Filiz Mumcu Türkiye 9 255 0.6× 80 0.3× 20 0.2× 49 0.7× 38 0.6× 34 527

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shira Chess

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shira Chess

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chess, Shira & Mia Consalvo. (2022). “The future of media studies is game studies”. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 39(3). 159–164. 11 indexed citations
2.
Chess, Shira & Christopher Paul. (2018). The End of Casual: Long Live Casual. Games and Culture. 14(2). 107–118. 27 indexed citations
3.
Chess, Shira & Jessica Maddox. (2018). Kim Kardashian is my new BFF: Video games and the looking glass celebrity. Popular Communication. 16(3). 196–210. 2 indexed citations
4.
Massanari, Adrienne & Shira Chess. (2018). Attack of the 50-foot social justice warrior: the discursive construction of SJW memes as the monstrous feminine. Feminist Media Studies. 18(4). 525–542. 63 indexed citations
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Chess, Shira. (2017). Ready Player Two. University of Minnesota Press eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Chess, Shira. (2017). Ready Player Two: Women Gamers and Designed Identity. Digital Scholarship - UNLV (University of Nevada Reno). 21 indexed citations
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Chess, Shira. (2016). The queer case of video games: orgasms, Heteronormativity, and video game narrative. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 33(1). 84–94. 15 indexed citations
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Chess, Shira & Adrienne Shaw. (2016). We Are All Fishes Now: DiGRA, Feminism, and GamerGate. 2(2). 5 indexed citations
9.
Chess, Shira. (2016). A time for play: Interstitial time, Invest/Express games, and feminine leisure style. New Media & Society. 20(1). 105–121. 19 indexed citations
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Chess, Shira, et al.. (2016). What Does a Gamer Look Like? Video Games, Advertising, and Diversity. Television & New Media. 18(1). 37–57. 26 indexed citations
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Chess, Shira & Adrienne Shaw. (2015). A Conspiracy of Fishes, or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying About #GamerGate and Embrace Hegemonic Masculinity. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. 59(1). 208–220. 231 indexed citations
12.
Demo, Anne Teresa, et al.. (2015). The Motherhood Business: Consumption, Communication, and Privilege. 15 indexed citations
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Chess, Shira. (2014). Uncanny Gaming. Feminist Media Studies. 15(3). 382–396. 3 indexed citations
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Chess, Shira. (2014). Augmented regionalism: Ingress as geomediated gaming narrative. Information Communication & Society. 17(9). 1105–1117. 33 indexed citations
15.
Chess, Shira, et al.. (2014). Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man. Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks. 10 indexed citations
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Chess, Shira & Paul Booth. (2013). Lessons down a rabbit hole: Alternate reality gaming in the classroom. New Media & Society. 16(6). 1002–1017. 22 indexed citations
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Chess, Shira. (2010). How to Play a Feminist. 9(1). 1 indexed citations
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Chess, Shira. (2010). A 36-24-36 Cerebrum: Productivity, Gender, and Video Game Advertising. Critical Studies in Media Communication. 28(3). 230–252. 28 indexed citations
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Chess, Shira. (2009). License to play : women, productivity, and video games. UMI eBooks. 8 indexed citations
20.
Geisler, Cheryl, James P. Zappen, Katherine Isbister, et al.. (2006). Usable Content in a Post-Document World. 106–119. 1 indexed citations

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