O discurso de violência simbólica de gênero em uma página e em grupos voltados ao League of Legends no Facebook

Abstract

This Master’s dissertation aims to study the symbolic violence which is targeted to the feminine gender through discourses that are part of the game League of Legends context and of social network websites. The objective is to comprehend how violence is revealed by interactions concerning women’s participation in electronic combat games and to investigate how women react in front of other gamers toxic behavior via the study of six posts which were found on a fanpage and on two Facebook groups. With that purpose, such posts will be analyzed in the light of the Computer Mediated Discourse Analysis, methodology proposed by Herring (2001; 2004), and four levels will be considered on each one: structure, meaning, interaction and social behavior. Regarding the theoretical aspects, the understanding about discourse and its intersection with asymmetric power relationships developed by Foucault (1996; 2008) and Bordieu (1989; 1991), the work of Zizek about violence, the text of Recuero (2009) considering social networks and social capital and of Fragoso (2008) related to games, between others, will be the basis for the analysis.