Antonia's A-level Media Blog

  Women and videogames: blog tasks Work through the following blog tasks to complete our work on women in videogames and further feminist theory. Part 1: Background reading on Gamergate Read  this Guardian article on Gamergate 10 years on . Answer the following questions: 1) What was Gamergate?  A modern culture war. 2) What is the recent controversy surrounding narrative design studio Sweet Baby Inc?  Being accused of secretly forcing game developers to change the bodies, ethnicities and sexualities of video game characters to fit the 'woke' ideology.  3) What does the article conclude regarding diversity in videogames? Nobody is forcing diversity into games. Part 2: Further Feminist Theory: Media Factsheet Use our Media Factsheet archive on the M: drive Media Shared (M:\Resources\A Level\Media Factsheets) or  here using your Greenford Google login . Find Media Factsheet  #169 Further Feminist Theory , read the whole of the Factsheet and answer the fo...

  Audience Read  this App Store description and the customer reviews for The Sims FreePlay  and answer the following questions:   1) What game information is provided on this page? Pick out three elements you think are important in terms of making the game appeal to an audience. Ratings, Age rating,  Category, Developer Important:  Ratings Age Rating Category of Games 2) How does the game information on this page reflect the strong element of participatory culture in The Sims? The active and honest reviews from players along w their personal ratings of the game shows the interactive participatory nature. 3) Read a few of the user reviews. What do they suggest about the audience pleasures of the game?  The graphics/ cartoonish nature Quests Different ages for roleplay Ability to create a family and have romantic interests How it resembles actual life Participatory culture Read  this academic journal article - The Sims:  A Participatory Culture...