Anti Gamergate Analysis

Jane McGonigal's Ted talk video told me 3 things never give up, don’t be so easy to write off a media, and always find another way through the issue. This video pretty much tells me that video games can be a tool to save lives and not just for being for fun. I want to also add that she starts her conference by her saying “I’m a gamer” a perfect way to gain my attention because I’m a gamer also. She then briefly talks about how other people see video games rather “it’s a waste of time” or “it’s just for kids” I hear this a lot from people who never really even held a game controller. An Interesting part of the video is that she explains how some games can be a relationship tool which I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve heard someone that

The idea of a documentary being an artistic or even personalised expression of a director is long gone, or so it seems in recent times. In Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Bowling for Columbine, he attempts to get across to viewers his, and essentially only his point of view, on the topic of gun laws. Although what Moore is trying to say is not necessarily wrong, he is at the same time not taking into account the other side of the argument either; all he is trying to do, essentially is hypnotise viewers into thinking

There are a handful of common biases about gamers in society as well as an amount of common stereotypes. These always come from somewhere, often stereotypes are born from the most noteworthy individuals or actions of a community, because the most negative things always have a greater impact it makes people have wrong impressions of gamers and weird stereotypes, giving an extremely twisted and warped idea of the community as a whole. What does society think about gamers?

After reading The Hate U Give, my eyes were opened to the struggles that people face in “ghettos”. Before reading this book, I never thought how awful it can be to be stuck there and not be a part of the gangs, drugs, and crime. Starr is stuck in Garden Heights even though she frowns upon all of the shady dealings that occur around her. I know many people that look at residents of not-so-nice neighborhoods and automatically assume that they are just another gangbanging “hood rat” (a term I’m heard a lot). I know many people who do not act and despise people that act in such a manner and this book showed me how they deal with these stereotypes put on them.

This project has reaches at least 2.5 million people per week. This is including the social media campaigns, with hashtags such as, #BeAModelMan, #MarchingForward, #RepresentHer #NotBuyingIt, and more. Through this project, they even began to focus on males and their place in society. Another documentary came out of this, “The Mask You Live

Despite my overall positive opinion of the documentary, I did have some problems with the documentary. I feel that the documentary does not effectively focus in on the ideologies that defined the movement. They are mentioned occasionally but I felt like they should have been woven more thoroughly into the narrative like gray area between Black Power, socialism, and Marxism theories. Also, there seem to be a large focus on that type of sensationalized media that we are always warned about in this course. The division between Newton and Cleaver sections was portrayed in my opinion as a superficial squabble not a true conflict of ideology and the direction of the movement. Instead of just focusing on their public quarrels like the phone calls maybe they could have interviewed more people that chose a side and their reasonings behind doing that. In addition to interviewing those people, I think the documentary would have benefitted from interviews by more women. The documentary states that women were a large portion of the “rank and file” but if I am recalling correctly less than seven were interviewed in comparison to far more men. Nelson made it seem like the themes of gender and sexuality in the movement would be explored but it barely skated the surface like where was the discussion of womanism in the movement. I think that is a big problem that

People have always been looking for a reason why horrible things happen. The media is quick to blame video games as the target and cause of many shootings that have occurred, ever since Columbine and Quake. People have been blaming video games for violence for years now, ever since violent video games have been made. News reports blame video games more and more for each shooting, telling the public how this person played video games for x amount of hours a day, and that video games caused him or her to shoot people, and how video games encourage and reward violence. Anti-video game lobbyists have been campaigning to have violence removed from video games, citing resources that they themselves have created as reasons for

Left out is one of the most pivotal events in LGBTQIA+ history, the Stonewall riots, that just so happens to have been led by trans women, more specifically the iconic trans woman of color, Marsha P. Johnson. This deletion of history in such a ‘pivotal’ film almost completely discredits the intentions of educating the public. Miss Representation becomes Miss Cishet Representation, Featuring a

However, despite of its fabricated intentions, the media proposed a valid argument against the movement: why the movement did not last over the years. One often overlooked aspect of Riot grrrl was that although it claimed to revive the feminist appeal by standing up for ALL women, the majority of its efforts seemed to appeal more in favor of middle-class Caucasian women. Members with a variety of ethnic backgrounds who identified themselves as riot grrrls felt that that their adversities and struggles as both minorities and women were not equally put into perspective as much as those of their counterparts. This flaw within the movement has negatively affected its social longevity and overall appeal to a wider range of women, yet the dedication to spread awareness on intimate struggles and successful establishment of a community within the movement have proven to still be both effective as well as inspiring in today’s modern society. Without a doubt, the riot grrrl movement took the world by storm on a social and political level, but not entirely on the still prominently masculine world of

This documentary is biased and its authenticity is questioned as to whether the facts presented are disputable or not.

I believe that this documentary was very well done in showing the 16 women stand up for themselves for the first time and break their silence years after the war. They only spoke,

lot of controversy in the video game industry, but there are very few reasons to back up the

By forcing out the gamergate community from the internet we will effectively kill this undesirable internet group. This group has affectively hurt many people with scaring them into leaving their jobs of journalism just to stop the hail of life threats. The gamergate community believes that what they do is the right thing. They believe that their saving the internet from liar’s and evil people, when its them that are evil. In just 2 days there were 316,000 tweets with the #Gamergate on them, from those 316,000 tweets 75% were negative. These negative tweets were sent to just a handful of journalists. (Romano, 2014). These acts of violence are hardly righteous. The Gamergate community is sadly wrong about being good.

You might be living a blissful live unaware that there is a movement very close to your living room. It is not in the real world but in a digital domain. It come to known as the “#Gamergate” movement, a movement that is based on concerned with ethics in game journalism and with the protecting the “gamer” identity. Though, the movement is an ostensibly one, Gamergate is not much more than a tone-deaf rabble of angry obsessive with a misguided understanding in journalistic ethics, however that is absolutely no reasons not to disregard the movement.

GamerGate started when an independent game developer, named Zoe Quinn, was caught having a romantic relationship with Eron Gonji, who was a journalist for Kotaku. It turned out that Enron was giving Eron’s video games bias positive reviews. Even though Kotaku claimed that never published reviews of Quinn’s game, gamers were upset that Gonji was not fired and whole situation did not get much publicity from the gaming press. Eron Gjoni also alleged that Quinn had cheated on him with five other men, some of whom are game journalists. The name Gamergate came to be when Adam Baldwin started a twitter hashtag #GamerGate. To fully understand Gamergate, there are three spectrums to this issue. First, there are people who want an ethical reformation in the gaming press. The media in the video game industry is vital because it