Read the blog: Take 2…culture paper posted by Andrew.Parks from the IAM department. Answer any of the following questions:

1. Do you agree with Parks’ assessment of video games? Why or why not?
2. Can you think of any examples that defy the stereotyping he describes?
3. Can you point to other instances of racial, ethnic, class, gender and/or sexual stereotyping in video games?
4. In what ways do these images inform or reflect one’s sense of identity, culture, and power?

Hi folks – note the readings due for this week:

Reading/Viewing Due:

Emlinger Roberts, Rebecca. “The Stripper: Victim Art and the Art of Suffering,” Antioch Review, Winter2005, Vol. 63 Issue 1, p23-39 (handout).

Warner, Sara L. “The Medea Project: Mythic Theater for Incarcerated Women” Feminist Studies: The Prison Issue, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer, 2004

I’m not going to require posting this week. HOWEVER, if you are behind in any way (have missed some postings, for example), I will accept comments to this blog with regards to any one of the readings this week and will count as EXTRA CREDIT.

So this is your opportunity to do a little catch-up if you are behind.

No joke . . .