제목 : STORIES AND CHANGING SOCIAL NORMS: REPRESENTATION OF GENDER IN VIDEO GAMES FROM 2007 TO 2017
저자 : Kingsland Kaitlyn
초록 :
This paper focuses on how a games’ characters and story reflect changing cultural norms in the period during which a game series was developed and released. This is done through qualitative evaluation of the Dragon Age series (2009-2014) and compared to two other game franchises with similar release dates and production location: the Mass Effect Trilogy (2007-2012) and the Uncharted series (2007-2017). Stories reflect cultural and societal norms of the periods and places that crafted them, providing a unique avenue of second-person stories, containing bits and pieces of their creators and their sociocultural biases. Using these digital games as artifacts and texts of focus, a change in social and cultural values and norms of modern society appears when evaluating and comparing the content of previous games in a series to the current ones, as these works reflect the environment in which they were created.
URL : http://www.digra.org/digital-library/publications/stories-and-changing-social-norms-representation-of-gender-in-video-games-from-2007-to-2017/
제목 : STORIES AND CHANGING SOCIAL NORMS: REPRESENTATION OF GENDER IN VIDEO GAMES FROM 2007 TO 2017
저자 : Kingsland Kaitlyn
초록 :
This paper focuses on how a games’ characters and story reflect changing cultural norms in the period during which a game series was developed and released. This is done through qualitative evaluation of the Dragon Age series (2009-2014) and compared to two other game franchises with similar release dates and production location: the Mass Effect Trilogy (2007-2012) and the Uncharted series (2007-2017). Stories reflect cultural and societal norms of the periods and places that crafted them, providing a unique avenue of second-person stories, containing bits and pieces of their creators and their sociocultural biases. Using these digital games as artifacts and texts of focus, a change in social and cultural values and norms of modern society appears when evaluating and comparing the content of previous games in a series to the current ones, as these works reflect the environment in which they were created.
URL : http://www.digra.org/digital-library/publications/stories-and-changing-social-norms-representation-of-gender-in-video-games-from-2007-to-2017/