Gender Equality in Digital Games 電子遊戲與性別平等

Creator

Li, Jiajuan, Ginger 李嘉隽

Title

Subject

Interactive multimedia -- Design -- Exhibitions

College graduates

Date Created

2019-06-27

Relation

PolyU Design - Projects gallery

Format

Photographs

Identifier

ASSD2019BAIMD09P001

ASSD2019BAIMD09P002

ASSD2019BAIMD09P003

Is Part Of

BA (Hons) in Interactive Media

Description

Gender Equality in Digital Games

Gender equality is one of the global goals need people to achieve. This is a complicated issue and it affects the different area. In the video game, stereotypes and sexism are serious problems, especially for the female. The female gamer may face issues like invisibility, limited education, sexualized environment, sexist advertising, and online harassment. This created an unfriendly environment for the female gamer. For the male gamer, they are unknowingly affected by gender stereotypes. People may be affected by gender roles from the video game content and also suffering sexism from other people in real life.

Stereotype Flip is a digital board game which brings an unfair game experience to the player. The player can see multiple perspective opinions with the gender roles according to the game tools. After the games, people can have a face-to-face communication space reflect on the sexism situation.

隨著性別平等概念的普及，人們開始重視媒體在這方面帶來的影響。在遊戲行業，男女不平等現象隨處可見，無論女性玩家或女性從業者都遭受到不同程度的性別歧視，但遊戲界卻未能像電影界一樣引起人們的重視。《反轉刻板印象》是一款桌面卡牌游戏，在遊戲過程中，玩家會被代入到被歧視的角色中，體驗不平等，以此讓玩家反思遊戲內性別歧視的現象。遊戲旨在引起人們對性別平等的關注，以桌遊的形式創造機會讓玩家面對面交流，共同探討議題。

Collection

PolyU Design Annual Show 2019: beyond the surface = 二〇一九理大設計年展: 表裡以外