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Stereotypical Negative Female Gender Roles in Digital Games
Baltezarević, Dr. Borivoje
Baltezarević, Prof. dr Vesna
Baltezarević, Prof. dr Radoslav
Kwiatek, assoc. prof. Dr. Piotr Kwiatek
Baltezarević, Dr. Ivana Baltezarević
Digital games represent a new media form dominated by men, either as characters or as players. The perception of digital games as ‘Boys’ Fun’ has been denied by the latest research that points to the fact that women are increasingly accessing this medium. But the analysis of digital games shows that gender roles appear in this media as real-world stereotypes. It means that there is discrimination against women who often have a pas- sive role, whether they appear as victims or as sexual objects. When they are not damsels in distress helplessly awaiting their saviour or playing heroines, then, they are most often portrayed as rebellious beauties with oversized dimensions. The subject of this paper is female representation in digital games. Authors used content analysis of 30 digital games with female protagonists, published at J Station, to examine the female gender roles in such digital games. The aim of the empirical study is to demonstrate that the elements of gender discrimination are present in digital games and that they can lead to the creation of harmful stereotypes against women.
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digital games, discrimination, female, gender roles, stereotype.