Análisis de la jerga digital de adolescentes en el videojuego league of legends

Abstract

This academic article analyzes the content of the video game League of Legends as an interface in virtuality that contains visual and sound elements that allow the configuration of a gamer language that is understood by adolescents who consume this content. Through a methodology that includes data collection, participant observation and content analysis, as techniques that helped to understand the signs and meanings found within the video game, which allow interaction and communication among adolescent players. This study seeks to analyze forms of entertainment from contributions of authors such as: Henry Jenkins (2015), Pierre Lévy (2007) and Carlos Scolari (2008), which will allow responding to the categories: communication and symbolic interaction, language in cyberculture, digital slang in adolescent gamers and, digital entertainment with League of Legends. The position that is handled in the findings of this research on video games lies in highlighting the positive aspects of their use and the way in which language adapts to a communication process through codes and digital jargon of adolescents who are part of the League of Legends video game community. Therefore, it emphasizes the forms of socialization of the gamer culture that continues to evolve in digital platforms.