In our presentation, we have chosen Mia Consalvo’s reading to present our topic about the gender and sexuality issues in video game. Firstly, we have introduced some important ideas which are mentioned in the readings such as the sexuality representation and the erotic triangle in video game. With the example of The Super Mario Bros and The Sims, we discovered the representation of heterosexuality is often occurring in the common video game. It means that the structure of video game is mostly affected by a heterosexual society that we are living in.
Therefore, we have set up an implicative question in the discussion part. For the reason is that we think it is a interesting topic for peoples to concern more about do the video games have reinforce the dominant ideology about heterosexuality and the representation of gender. During the keen discussion, we don’t think that the video game may reinforce the representation of gender as it is mostly depend on the player interests. For example, one of our classmate’s boyfriends likes to play cooking game and one’s girlfriend likes to play violent game respectively. It is really difficult to say that video game may reinforce the dominant ideology. Finally, we think it is a quite interesting topic for us to discuss.
Therefore, we have set up an implicative question in the discussion part. For the reason is that we think it is a interesting topic for peoples to concern more about do the video games have reinforce the dominant ideology about heterosexuality and the representation of gender. During the keen discussion, we don’t think that the video game may reinforce the representation of gender as it is mostly depend on the player interests. For example, one of our classmate’s boyfriends likes to play cooking game and one’s girlfriend likes to play violent game respectively. It is really difficult to say that video game may reinforce the dominant ideology. Finally, we think it is a quite interesting topic for us to discuss.
2 comments:
I agreed that your group's discussion part was very interesting. It aroused many voices to discuss on the gender ideology of the video games. Most of the people play video games everyday but they may ignore this part. I am very appreciating that this group pointed out this question for our discussion. I also ignore this problem in our daily life such as the case of my boyfriend who likes to play cooking games.
I think your group's presentation is very interesting, and video game is one of the most popular entertainment among teenage and the young generation, so it's impact on them are very huge, especially when the notion of gender representation. More and more games just reinforcing the unequal gender role and status, so we can not ignore it's impact.
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