A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Isabelle Williams grapples with the manifestation of failure in the video game Getting Over It by dissecting movement of the player’s body in several key moments of the game.
Read moreAmanda C. Cote and Brandon Harris discuss the myth of high-quality video games coming as a result of overworked video game developers.
Read moreAmanda C. Cote and Caden Perry discuss the racialized aspects of character creation in role-playing games.
Read moreAmanda Phillips writes about the representation of masculinties, particularly through the representation of penises, the omnipresent hardness, and the always absent softness or flaccidity.
Read moreKate Edwards argues that content creators, especially those with a global audience, must balance carefully between culturalization and censorship in video games and other content.
Read moreKaitie Hilburn examines the dual role of gamers as both performers and audience within the speedrunning community using the charity marathon Games Done Quick as a case study.
Read moreThe reveal trailers for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and Battlefield 1 have become the most disliked and liked trailers on YouTube, respectively. Cameron Lindsey thinks this says less about the games themselves, and more about the marketing.
Read moreIn the final installment of their “Wicked Games” series, Matthew Payne and Peter Alilunas take a look the infamous Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas’ ‘Hot Coffee’ mod, which made sex scenarios visible in the game and elicited regulatory retaliation.
Read moreIn part II of their “Wicked Games” series, Matthew Payne and Peter Alilunas look the controversies surrounding the video game industry in the early 1990s and the subsequent birth of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) ratings.
Read moreA history of controversies surrounding tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons
Read moreDale Hudson discusses the use of machinima as critique of U.S. labor and immigration laws.
Read moreMicro-Ethnographies of the Screen: Flatworld
by: Dan Leopard / St. Mary’s College of California
In the second part in his discussion of screens in our daily lives, Leopard considers the implicit training and conditioning of ICT’s virtual and miltary-funded Flatworld Project.