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"There Are No Women and They All Play Mercy" : Understanding and Explaining (the Lack of) Women’s Presence in Esports and Competitive Gaming
2018
In this paper, we explore women’s participation in esports and competitive gaming. We will analyze two different types of research material: online questionnaire responses by women explaining their reluctance to participate in esports, and online forum discussions regarding women’s participation in competitive Overwatch. We will examine the ways in which women’s participation – its conditions, limits and possibilities – are constructed in the discussions concerning women gamers, how women are negotiating their participation in their own words, and in what ways gender may affect these processes. Our findings support those made in previous studies concerning esports and competitive gaming as …
Gender and Toxic Meritocracy in Competitive Overwatch: Case “Ellie”
2022
AbstractThis chapter examines toxic meritocracy in relation to gender in competitive Overwatch, asking how gender affects a player’s opportunities for engagement in that scene. It analyzes online news stories and community discussions concerning “Ellie” – a fabricated competitive woman gamer created as a “social experiment” by a man player. The confluences between gender and toxic meritocracy become visible in the assumption there must be an experienced man gamer behind the battletag, the gender-based harassment targeted at Ellie, and the reflections on the importance of setting an example as the first team taking a woman player for Contenders. The analysis shows that despite a strong belie…
Big Data e accesso al credito degli immigrati: discriminazioni algoritmiche e tutela del consumatore
2020
The aim of this essay is to assess the capacity of innovative credit scoring techniques to improve financial inclusion of the unbanked. Given the lack of informations on immigrants creditworthiness, the use of Big Data analytics could be a useful tool, because it makes possibile to collect and analyze the huge quantity of data produced online by the consumer. According to the author, it is questionable the compliance of social network data with the requirements of the Testo Unico Bancario: according to articles 120 undecies and 124 bis, the data used in the creditworthiness assessment should be connected with the consumer’s ability to repay the debt. The essay, moreover, stress the need for…