Prejudice and discrimination against women in the brazilian e-sports scene

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Pedro Henrique Rocha
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Furlan, Cássia Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: ETD - Educação Temática Digital
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/etd/article/view/8664937
• topic: Games; Gender; Prejudice; Jogos; Gênero; Preconceito; Juegos; Género; Prejuicio

We aimed to study prejudice and discrimination suffered by women in electronic games. For the data survey, the method used was a mixed online questionnaire, developed through Google's forms platform, Google Forms, and disseminated on social networks, exclusively in groups of members of some e-Sports, to be answered by women, aiming to obtain information about events involving discrimination/prejudice within or related to the virtual gaming environment. The study involved 110 women, aged between 15 and 30, from different regions of the country. Among the results found, we noticed that virtual society is certainly toxic and misogynistic, and women need to look for camouflage methods to be able to enjoy games and e-Sports in a pleasurable way. In this context, there is a need to think about actions, in the educational field, to try to minimize and combat discriminatory, prejudiced, and violent actions, both inside and outside the virtual environment.