Lazer e trabalho no capitalismo de plataforma: fronteiras das diferentes relações sociais vividas por jogadores de free fire

Abstract

In this working discuss itself the reconfiguration of leisure in the technocultural regime of Capitalism of Platform, (SRNICEK, 2018) taking into account the advance of commodification several aspect of social living, the reformulations in the work world and the consequences unfoldings in the daily life from the subjects in which refers to their personal experience with their free time, it is processed also in a context of economic crisis and weakening of the working ties. We recognize that scenery has arisen discussions about the limits of workspace, in view of tensions from bounds between the leisure and the working, it is visualized in concepts as prosummer (FUCHS, 2015) or co creator (SAAD; RAPOSO, 2016) and playbour (PEUTER; YOUNG, 2019) it leaves the hypothesis that the characteristic of the relationship between user-player and online platform accounts a duality between the fun moment and the producing moment, this is, leisure and working, respectively. Here, rather than we get that concepts, we look for what social relations are made up between players and the game platforms, from now on the Free Fire players’ studying, due to the changes in the games, which take part in the culture and their important growth in the digital industry (APPERLEY; JAYEMANE, 2017; FALCÃO, 2015; WAKKA, 2021 and ANDREOZZI, 2020). To checking out the diverse social activities that are set in the relationship with the game, the techniques of research that have been used: the bibliography review and analysis documental, besides of practices investigation from now an online form from Google Form applied to users- players. The replies have been joined in the following analytic categories: i) player profile, ii) daily life colonization, iii) influence circuit, iv) the bounds between working and leisure and v) the meanings between the fun and the working. The analysis concluded that, the experience created and kept by user-players owns uneven interesting and outlines when it is set as leisure and working, but both of them are involved in commercial circuit.