In this episode I unpack Trancred et al.’s (2020) publication titled “Understanding women modders using the serious leisure perspective,” which discusses a survey that investigated motivations for participating in modding practices among women.

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00:00 Intro00:44 Abstract

01:53 My single sentence summary

02:01 What is modding?03:12 Paper intro04:31 Background

05:43 Serious leisure framework

08:45 Methods12:17 Results13:35 SLIM analysis16:37 Qualitative findings16:50 Discussion

18:48 Lingering questions and thoughts

18:57 What context and data are missing from the open-ended responses to the survey?

19:47 How did these answers compare with the responses from male or nonbinary participants who also filled out the survey?

20:13 Do participants strongly identify as a female modder are there are identities that better align with their interest in modding?

22:02 How might we consider leisure within classroom contexts?

22:32 Outro