Violência de gênero no cenário do e-sports: a percepção das jogadoras brasileiras sobre a violência de gênero no mundo dos games

Abstract

The e-Sports scenario has become an important job-generating sector in the world, in the same direction, the number of women participating in this sector has increased, concomitantly practices of gender violence have been observed in this scenario, in a way that affects these women psychologically. In this sense, the present work aimed to analyze the perception of Brazilian players regarding gender violence in the world of games, through a qualitative approach, using a netnographic exploratory research, in which a semi-structured interview and participant observations were applied and non-participating. The results showed that there is gender violence in a customary and routine way, in addition to the fact that players often use actions such as chat silencing, game abandonment, use of male or neutral nicknames when encounter this violence. It was also verified, in the players' perception, that there should be more campaigns to raise awareness of gender violence in e-Sports, as well as more investments in teams, tournaments to encourage more the performance of the female audience in e-Sports, and that gaming platforms be stricter in punishments.