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Popular Culture: Theories Of Visual Culture

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Theories of Visual culture Research paper THESIS STATEMENT “Games have always been a huge part of pop culture and have had an impact on the world but the gaming industry itself has not been politically correct when it comes to showcasing different races. This doesn’t just alienate a large portion of people but also desensitizes the players playing these games”

The Video gaming industry is worth over a 100 billion dollars and it is expected to increase year by year, there is no denying the numbers, the gaming industry is as big as …show more content…

What has happened throughout the years is the bigger the gaming industry is getting the more studies are being related to gaming. According to a study done by Pew Internet and American Life Project, a un tampered sample of children ranging from 12 to around 17 year old in the USA about 73.9 percent of all those children are white who play video games while only 26.1 percent of children that play video games are not white. Many game researches say that one of the reasons that maybe games tend to feel racist or biased towards a certain group is because that most of the game developers, designers, story writers involved are white. That might sound like stretch yet there is data to back it up, a recent survey found that 90 percent of people who have jobs in the gaming industry in Silicon Valley are whites. This is ample proof about the white dominated industry of …show more content…

The other things we discussed were how the western media portrays 3rd world countries negatively, none more so than countries in Africa. One of the games I will be analyzing is Resident evil 5, resident evil 5 is from a long line of successful games made by capcom. Almost all of their games have been great and not marred with any controversy like this one. The plot of the game is the protagonist is chris redfield who is white with the help of sheva a half African BSAA agent you got to a fictional place in Africa called kijuju where most infact all of the people over there are infected from the T- virus (a virus that cause you to become a brainless zombie). From then begins the mass genocide in which you are the leader of, throughout the game there isn’t one conversation or even a suggestion that either one of them had about trying to either cure or at least talk about how horrible the situation is, there was barely any regret for the situation and it was all about killing as many as they can and move forward. This was especially bad because Africa already had a history of epidemics like the aids crisis so it was insensitive interms of that as

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