Double Edged Sword: Gender Roles and Social Norms Accidentally Pushed on Adolescent Boys

“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 …

Documenting gender/social norms through the hyperreal

For my MA Project, I’ve decided to do something based around the hyperreal and gender/social norms projected onto young kids, further exploring how that may be becoming more aggressive as we begin to merge more with the hyperreal over time. I’d like to do this in a documentary form, interviewing people of different genders to …