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Race, Gender and Misogynoir Stereotypes within the Constructions of Digital Women Footballers
In this talk, Anika Leslie-Walker, Paul Ian Campbell and Marcus Maloney will discuss their recent Identities article, ‘The intersections of race and gendered stereotypes within the constructions of digital women footballers in video games’. They will explore the ways in which the numerical values which constitute FIFA22’s ‘Top 100’ Black and White digital women footballers reflect or challenge the wider social and sporting discourses that shape the experiences of Black and White female sporting athletes in the offline world.
School of Social and Political Sciences; College of Social Sciences Hub
Date: Tuesday 23 September 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: Online
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Speaker: Anika Leslie-Walker (Nottingham Trent University), Paul Ian Campbell (University of Leicester), and Marcus Maloney (Coventry University)
Lecture organised by Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, in collaboration with University of Glagow Media, Culture & Society
In this talk, Anika Leslie-Walker, Paul Ian Campbell and Marcus Maloney will discuss their recent Identities article, ‘The intersections of race and gendered stereotypes within the constructions of digital women footballers in video games’. They will explore the ways in which the numerical values which constitute FIFA22’s ‘Top 100’ Black and White digital women footballers reflect or challenge the wider social and sporting discourses that shape the experiences of Black and White female sporting athletes in the offline world. The talk will shine light on the considerable differences between the construction, sporting competencies and artificial emotional and sporting intelligence assigned to Black and White digital players within the game. The talk will explore how these also demonstrate the ways in which the numerical foundations of racialized digital women footballers are informed by, and reflect, processes of both sporting misogynoir and Whiteness, which intersect and underpin the markedly anti-Black and anti-feminine framings and sporting competencies of digital Black female footballers within the digital sports world.