Um estudo sobre a empatia de jogadores por personagens de jogos eletrônicos

Abstract

In the constant and hurried changes that digital technologies cause in the forms of entertainment, communication and emotional attachment targets of human beings, modifying the relationships with each other and even the understanding of their identities, it would become relevant to understand the influence of these media. in society. Having the games as a media that is inserted in the system with proposals for the emotional construction of its players, this work intends, through personal reports about the players’ experiences, to understand the influence provoked in them by the proposals of empathic construction of these games. Using the Malinowski ethnography and adapting the field needs and the research objective to analyze the communication practices and debate proposals of the players of the game Life is Strange True Colors in the group Life is Strange Brasil of the social network Facebook, it concludes that the concept of empathy and the proposals for empathic development of these media need to improve their definitions to approach the concept of empathy recognized by other sciences, in addition to some aspects of game design contri uting to the superficiality of empathic construction.