Üretim ve Emek Ekseninde Dijital Oyun Sektöründe Kadın

Year 2020, Volume: 3 Issue: 5, 201 - 219, 26.06.2020

Aysel Çetinkaya

https://doi.org/10.35235/uicd.726960

Abstract

Günümüzde dijital oyunlar, çeşitlilik ve katılım konusuna ilişkin giderek artan bir ilginin ve söylemin odak noktası haline gelmiştir. Tüm dünyada hacmi ekonomik olarak günden güne büyüyen oyun sektöründe üretim, işgücü ve emek ele alınması gereken önemli konular arasında yer almaktadır. Ancak bilinmektedir ki dijital oyun üretimindeki kadın katılımı hala oldukça düşük seviyededir. Dijital oyun sektöründe çalışan kadıların, içerik üretimi, oyun deneyim, kodlama, seviye tasarlama veya mekanik gibi alanlardan ziyade sıklıkla daha az teknik olan pazarlama ve beşeri ilişkileri içeren alanlarda faaliyet gösterdiği görülmektedir. Bu sebeple, muhafazakar bir üretim kültürü içinde gelişen dijital oyun sektörünü kadın üreticiler gözünden değerlendirmek ve üretimdeki kadın azlığının sebeplerini tartışmak önem kazanmaktadır.
Bu çalışma, Türkiye’deki dijital oyun sektöründeki görünür kadın figürler aracılığıyla oyun kültürü ve yapımındaki boşluklar ve çelişkilerin ortaya koyduğu zorlukları tartışmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu sebeple amaçlı örneklem esasına göre seçilen ve Türkiye’de oyun sektörü içinde aktif olarak yer alan kadın oyun geliştiricilerle yarı yapılandırılmış soru formu üzerinden görüşmeler gerçekleştirilmiştir. Sektördeki kadın istihdamına ve üretimdeki emek sürecine dair elde edilen veriler, var olan ve planlanan çalışmaların geleceğine ışık tutulmasına yardımcı olmayı amaç edinmektedir. 

Keywords

dijital oyun, toplumsal cinsiyet, kadın, üretim, emek

Women in Digital Game Sector in the Context of Production and Labor

Abstract

Today, digital games are becoming the focus of increasing interest and discourse based on diversity and participation. All over the world economically handled production, labor and labor in the game industry growing day by day. It is still at low levels. The use of high-level production in this sector is becoming clearer than working in industrial management positions such as marketing and non-development roles, which are less technical than used in areas such as game experiences or mechanics. Especially in a conservative production culture, it is important to examine the options of digital gaming and to discuss the reasons for the lack of women in production.

This study appears in the digital games industry chose to play female figures in Turkey aims to put culture and debate the challenges and the emergence of gaps and contradictions in the making. Therefore purposive sampling to select on the basis of and actively involved in the women's game developers with the operasyonı women in the industry and options obtained on the labor locus of production in Turkey in the game industry, will help to shed light on the future direction of the existing and planned work.

Keywords

Digital game, gender, production, labor, women

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