Um estudo em representações gráficas nos jogos eletrônicos na perspectiva das relações de gênero: os tipos de feminilidade em League of Legends

Abstract

This work aims to explore the representations of gender in the graphic industry of contemporary eletronic games. Selecting examples of the types of femininities and masculinities found in this field. It is meant to identify the use of gender hierarchies and stereotypes in game characters as a visual representation that may perpetuate specific pedagogies on the construction of gender. This research’s subject of analysis is the eletronic game League of Legends and the main objective is to identify which types of femininity are found in this work, contextualizing them and analyzing them critically taking gender studies as starting point. As a result brings a panorama of the characters based on the compilation of their quantitative features that constitute them as graphical representations of femininity.