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Sexual harassment in the video game community
Veverková, Veronika ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Dvořáčková, Jana (referee)
This thesis deals with gender-based harassment in the video game community. The aim is to explore what behaviors women encounter in this sphere, how they deal with this behavior, what its consequences are and what behaviors gamers consider to be problematic. The theoretical part focuses on defining the term sexual and gender-based harassment, the issues of cyberspace and harassing behavior in it. The following, empirical part, deals with the chosen research method and the chosen qualitative method, which was carried out using semi-structured interviews. The interview was given by eight women participants who move around the video game community as casual gamers, professional gamers, streamers or developers. It is a feminist research, whose intention was to give women a voice and try to understand this relatively closed toxic environment through their words and experiences. Eight interviews showed quite a lot of hate and toxicity from other players which is specific to women. Key words : Sexual harassment, gender-based harassment, cyberspace, video games, toxicity
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