“Você já se sente um herói?”: shooters como cultura histórica e discursos de ódio na comunidade gamer

Abstract

This work stems from an interest in analyzing and investigating synergies between hate speech frequently circulated in the West through virtual media and the production and hyper-popularization of content centered on digital games world. Thus, it aims to investigate the interaction between these discourses, the far-right behavior in contemporary society, and how it potentially articulates and reorganizes itself through ideological perspectives also evoked in the discourses of electronic war games. What interests here is not only the electronic games and their narratives themselves, but also the ways in which these cultural artifacts are apprehended, assimilated, and potentially mobilized by members of the gaming community. From this intersection, it is possible to question and investigate the circulation of xenophobic, racist, and misogynistic discourses, which also expand into chauvinistic positions, whose pro-military interventionism in the contemporary context of the War on Terror also gives them anti-Arab and Islamophobic overtones.