Analysis Of Video Gaming, Film, Television, By Film Or Videogame

According to several sources around 42% of the American population plays video games, and around 1.2 billion people worldwide play video games today. Gaming has become an increasingly more popular hobby since its creation. As such the medium has obviously attracted a multitude of different people and groups, all consisting of diverse backgrounds, body types, sexes, races, nationalities and the like. However, contrary to the numerous demographics video games have come to attract, it is very evident the vast majority of them do not seem to be marketed toward many of them via game characters, and their importance, if any, in a game. Video games show an overwhelming amount of white male characters, despite the many demographics they reach. Of the characters that are not white, or male, that are represented, are often represented poorly. For example, many black characters represented in video games are often characterized as vulgar, and violent. Women represented in games are often characterized as support characters, or objects of sexual desire. Considering forms of sexism, racism, and other such types of prejudices are still prominent in modern society, and these representations obviously do not help how people see these marginalized groups. Ultimately, these representations, or lack thereof, affect people in society in a number of ways, by perpetuating prejudice and harmful stereotypes.

Given that association, this new study took a gander at whether exemplifying sexualized female symbols online changed ladies ' conduct. The Stanford scientists asked 86 ladies matured 18-40 to play utilizing either a sexualized symbol or a non-sexualized symbol (dressed provocatively or conservatively). At that point, specialists outlined some of those symbols to resemble the player encapsulating them. Those ladies who played utilizing sexualized symbols who seemed as though them were all the more tolerating of the assault myth, as indicated by the study. Subsequent to playing the diversion, ladies reacted to numerous inquiries with answers along a five-point scale (emphatically differ to firmly concur), including, "In the lion 's share or assaults, the casualty is indiscriminate or has a terrible notoriety." Those who played attractive symbols who looked like themselves will probably reply "concur" or "unequivocally concur" than those ladies who had non-hot symbols who did not seem as though them. Members were likewise requested that free compose their musings after the study. Those with sexualized symbols will probably self-generalize in their expositions after play. In spite of the fact that this is a little study and unquestionably not a conclusive response to the subject of how computer games influence female players, the outcomes do raise concerns. Upwards of 46% of gamers are ladies, and, as indicated by this examination, in a large portion of the most mainstream

In most video games, you will see that most female characters, if there are any in the game, are animated to be big breasted voluptuous women. A content analysis of images of video game characters from top-selling American gaming magazines showed that female characters are more likely than male characters to be portrayed as sexualized at a ratio of 60:1 (Dill 2). Games such as Soul Caliber and Tomb Raider are known for their display of female characters. Their female characters are on the top 10 list of the most ridiculous female bodies in video games. Common stereotypes of women include that they are whiney, wimpy, and needy.

In the mini-series of three twenty-three to twenty-six minute episodes, Anita Sarkeesian explains in full, attentive detailing, the tropes embedded in video games since the very beginning of the Video Game era. The mini-series uses a systemic, big picture outlook to ultimately examine the plots and designs in video games to explain why women have always been objectified in video games. The most well-known way the female character is objectified is through a video game is by placing her in a Damsel in Distress position, woman in the refrigerator position, or any other position that creates a trope. In the mini-series description, Sarkeesian also states that even though critical analysis of the video games will be done, it is certainly probable

Video games have been a way to express the ideas and creativity of video game developers’ for year now. Recently they have taken a turn for the worst by incorporating racial, sexual and violent metaphors or scenarios. Two articles that talk about this important issues “Sex, violence and video games” by Mitch Krpata and “Not a Hater, Just Keepin' It Real: The Importance of Race- and Gender-Based Game Studies” by David J. Leonard. Leonard makes a crucial argument about the importance of balck, Hispanic and latino’s stereotypes in video games that are primarly played by white gamers. On the other hand, Krpata defends the critiques made about racism, violence and sex portrayed in video games by stanting that it is just fantasy. While both, Leonard

Unbeknownst to some individuals, the gaming industry has been growing in popularity as more people become introduced to technology and the social aspect of gaming has become more appealing to a variety of people. Since this TedTalk was performed 7 years ago, I can presume that the social stereotypes of what boy versus girl activities were not so intermixed and universal as it is today. With that being said, as a girl playing video games while also battling the work of university in 2017, I found myself disagreeing with many of the points Carr-Chellman was making, purely because it seemed very one-sided and she attempted to generalize a whole gender to display certain qualities and attributes. For example, she defined girls as dormant, rule-abiding, quiet learners who work well with the current inflexible education system whereas boys were the active learners who require more creativity with learning. To generalize and say that all boys play video games because they are disengaged from school without statistical evidence is unreliable and places a greater stigma behind video games being socially and mentally harmful to people who engage in their play. However, I agree with Ali Carr-Chellman when she says that the education system should not enforce

Carrie Reinhard asserts that women do not feel comfortable playing as hypersexualized female protagonists in video games, because the video game industry provides "characters modeling a body they cannot achieve, more an object for the male gaze than female empowerment (Reinhard. 6)."Personally, seeing "the sunflower with the big breasts" did not encourage me to feel empowered. I felt weak and insecure because of the stereotypes of women that are illuminated within video games. Video games represent women as a typical damsel in distress, whereas men are viewed as the hero (Brenick et. al. 3). Although, providing female protagonists in video games were supposed to appeal to more women, it subsequently discouraged women from playing video games.

Overall, it was found from my research that even with the emergence of next-generation systems and shifting landscapes in gaming, there is still a cultural perception of the gamer as white male. There are exceptions to this, which can be seen in many commercials that challenge our expectations of what a gamer might look like and how he or she might behave. Certainly, as time goes on, it’s been found that there is an increased inclusivity in terms of who might actually appear in these commercials. Some commercials have begun to play with and tease out these representations: the commercials of Call of Duty: Ghosts, for example, that featured a wide variety of players. While representations of the gamer have mostly stayed consistent, these examples pre-empt the beginnings of a shift, as the video game industry continues to diversify.

After an hour of frustration and an inability to find a topic for this qualitative gender portrayal, I gave up and decided to play video games to relax. All of a sudden, I sat staring at my TV screen completely dumbfounded as a nearly nude woman popped up on the loading screen of Grand Theft Auto V. For very obvious reasons, I was inspired to qualitatively analyze Grand Theft Auto V focusing specifically on gender stereotypes and sexualization present in the game. In order to accurately depict the video game’s portrayal of gender I studied both the story mode and online mode looking closely at the actions and speech, physical appearance, and prevalence of females within the game.

Throughout the years, society has become more accepting of diverse topics and ideas. As society continues to evolve, numerous entertainments have turned to displaying a greater amount of minority groups. Although movies and television shows are rapidly progressing towards this trend, video games seem to be cautiously starting to accept these ideas. Most of the advertising in video games are promoted towards the male population. Despite the fact men have previously been the dominant demographic in this type of entertainment, women have increasingly become a major part of the video game audience. In creating video games in which portray the opposite gender in a realistic way is beneficial to not only the female players but also to the male. It is important to promote the creation of gender-appropriate video games due to it decreasing the amount of sexualization and violence against women which assists in women’s self-confidence and men’s treatment towards women.

As technology moves forward, there is more information that needs to be preserved and carried on to the future besides books, websites, and databases. Just like technology changes so does culture where values, beliefs, and behaviors of a community continue to grow. The past few decades, videogames and online videos is subject that has grown to be part of many cultures. Some organizations do not believe that videogames and online videos are not part of valuable culture development that is worth being archived and to not want to participate in the process. The purpose of this paper is to argue that videogames and online videos need to be archived to represent the change within our culture. This point will be demonstrated with three articles.

The following essay will delve into the way in which women are represented within the gaming industry. It will reference an article found on an online journalistic website called Polygon. The article is titled 'Dragons Crown Review: Heavy Metal', written by Danielle Riendeau. It is a review of a video game which was critiqued due to over-sexualized female character designs. In spite of Dragon's Crown being a very well crafted game, this article became one of the most popular artifacts associated with it.

The portrayal of men and women in video games, as in other media, is a subject of research in gender studies. This topics is discuss in terms of sexism in video gaming. Especially, women are underrepresented or use as objectification in mainstream games. Women in video games are generally, as a rule of thumb, killed, raped, abused or rescued by the male heroes. This is extremely sad to see because the role of women in society is changing compare to ten years ago. Women has been proven themselves to be stronger and tough in different fields such as sports, politics, education but the representation hasn’t change.

“Video Games and Machine Dreams of Domination” by John Sanbonmatsu is an article that discusses video games and their impact on society. The main consumer and targeted audience of video games produced are white, heterosexual men (Sanbobmatsu). Just like comics, Sanbonmatsu notes, “The vast majority of game protagonists and heroes are male”. This makes sense due to the consumers the companies are trying to target. However, this sends a terrible message to women. The message tells women they do not belong in the world of video games and are not capable of being

Only 4% of video game titles released in the past 10 years feature a playable female character as the leading role, and there are even fewer female protagonists on the list of the top grossing video games (ESA). This trend of male dominated storylines is evident in other forms of media as well: movies and television shows tend to be centered around men, but video games show the least diversity in protagonists and often have regressive views on women and their position in society. Women make up 20% of console video game players and 46% of computer and mobile game players in this 20 billion dollar a