Monday, April 13, 2009

Culture...

"ALL YOUR BASE" suggests that the jargon used by avid gamers is filtered through the white, upper middle class male point of view [after taking Media Criticism, I really feel the need to ask what channel in the mass media isent!!!] According to the extract, this is because this demographic was most familiar with gaming at the time.
However, this article does not acknowledge the potential cultural egalitarianism that could be bred by the gaming industry. There are more mainstream hit games produced in the far east than blockbuster movie or albums. The blog before mine discusses pokemon, this game may have been played by white upper class males, however, it was designed from a japanes cultural perspective ans not an aAmerican one.
As always, parties who own the means of producing a particulr formof art of entertainment are more likely to have their voices heard than parties that dont. However, gamers have much more control on narrative than movie goers do. This narrative control may be able to dilute the initial cultural meaning of a game.
There is more than one culturl point of view in the gaming world and more are yet to come.

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