Social Discourses in Cyberpunk 2077: a Case Study of the Socio-Political Debates of the Gamer Community on YouTube from a Digital Humanities Perspective
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Online video gaming communities have become spaces for sociopolitical debates and fields for conflict over discourse, where the dominant frame hegemony takes part. Transformed into central spaces for subversion, organization and discussion, we approach the case study of Cyberpunk 2077, an open world role-playing video game that has been very prolific in the emergence of debates and activism in online communities like YouTube. Starting with ethnographical-based direct observations, we develop a qualitative study of the discourses and contents, focusing on the problematics related to the use of sociotechnical devices where identities, discourse and collective imaginaries are reconfigured.
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