I just realized that my last class reflection apparently didn’t post before break. During our last class together we watched a documentary about the Super Columbine Massacre RPG! game that caused such a controversy a few years back. I was quite impressed with the documentary, especially with the variety of people that were interviewed. I [...]
Game Grrlz Talk Back Summary
For today I read an article which was a compilation of thoughts about women and gaming. The article was compiled by editor Henry Jenkins. The article was composed of several women’s thoughts about how the gaming industry is so unbelievably gendered. Many of the women were flat out pissed off, as I can easily understand, [...]
11/16 Class Response
In class on Monday we got into a pretty deep conversation about virtual rape and the kind of problems and questions that arise because of this issue. I was pretty shocked to find out that virtual rape has been an issue since the early 90′s. I never would have thought that anyone could or would [...]
11/11 Class Response
Although it deviated a bit from our identity section of the course, one of the most interesting things I believe we talked about in class on Wednesday had to do with the subject of tackling hard issues through video games. I know I’ve blogged about this before, but it is a topic that keeps coming [...]
11/4 Class Response
In class on Wednesday we began discussing the subject of how people can view themselves in a virtual context. We started class by watching a video that illustrated a variety of virtual avatars. This was an interesting video and I’m glad we watched it, but the author of the video obviously wanted to leave it [...]
11/2 Class Response
On class on Monday we took a good amount of time to talk about our article summaries and how they related to ritual. One common theme that kept coming up in this conversation was that a bunch of our articles were related to text-based chat rooms on the Internet. This led us to the question, [...]
Play, Art & Ritual on IRC Summary
The article I read for our section on ritual was called “Play, Art & Ritual on IRC (Internet Relay Chat)” by Brenda Danet. The article was focused around a type of Internet Relay Chat that became popular in the mid-90’s. As a side note, Internet Relay Chat is just a more advanced term for chatting [...]
10/28 Class Response
In class on Wednesday we began talking more in-depth about the connections and overlaps between games, rituals and stories. To illustrate some of the overlaps we began playing a new Christian video game called “Heaven” in which the game player takes on the role of a person who has just made his way into the [...]
