This week, I read The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord. This is a very important read for my MA project. This source talks about how all that was once lived has become a representation of something further meaningful, usually some sort of social relation. Since long before digital media, we have stopped living …
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Simulacra and Simulation by Baudrillard explains how certain media artifacts can replace the original meaning of an artifact and alter it, such that the real is no longer the real; “A new morphogenesis has appeared,which comes from the cybernetic kind (that is to say, reproducing at the level of the territory, of the home, of …
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I recently watched a new documentary on Netflix called Unknown Number: The High School Catfish. It is very different from what I am doing topic-wise, but style-wise, it is very similar. Some things that are similar to my project that I need to address for my own project style are: the way content is shown …
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“The Double Edged Sword of Online Gaming: An Analysis of Masculinity in Video Games and the Gaming Community” is about the double sided analysis of violent video games on adolescents mental/emotional/sociological development. Overall it explains how these video games showcase mainly male characters and normalize violence as a way to ‘win’. For young boys this …